Starmer: We’d pay Brussels ‘forever’

LABOUR was accused of seeking “capitulation” to Brussels last night after the party’s Brexit spokesman called for Britain to continue paying billions a year to the EU forever.

Shadow EU Exit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer also said a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn would allow “easy movement” of European migrants and accept EU regulations indefinitely.

In a BBC interview yesterday he set out a vision for Brexit that would keep the country permanently locked into single market rules.

Senior Tories said his remarks confirmed that Labour was committed to leaving the EU in name only.

Capitulation

Sir Keir told The Andrew Marr Show: “We have a choice – do we want to stay aligned so that we can trade successfully or do we want to tear apart?

“I say we should stay aligned.

“We would start with viable options, staying in a customs union and a single market variant which means full participation in the single market.”

Asked if Britain would have to carry on paying into the EU budget, he cited non-member Norway’s example and said: “There may have to be payments, that’s to be negotiated.”

Tory backbencher Nigel Evans said: “What Keir Starmer is proposing is the worst deal possible. He doesn’t want a negotiation, he wants capitulation.”

IT HAS long been obvious that the Labour Party is not fully committed to Brexit and now, thanks to Sir Keir Starmer, we know the real truth. Under a Labour government there would be “easy movement” of European migrants, continued membership of the single market and acceptance of EU regulations. In other words, exactly what we have now.

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party veers between dangerous hard-Left socialism and supine obedience to what he sees as our European masters. Who in their right mind could possibly want him in charge? Labour’s economic illiteracy, combined with the EU’s ability to exploit weak governments for its own ends, would bankrupt the country.

It would be crazy to allow him anywhere near Number 10.