Sir Keir: We have a choice on Brexit
Oxford when he fell to the stage mid-song, with one audience member describing him “falling into a clump”.
The 66-year-old is currently in the midst of his The Road Songs For Lovers live tour. MORE motorists are charged with drink-driving in largely rural areas, an investigation suggests.
Figures obtained by the Press Association indicate Lincolnshire prosecutes the most per population, followed by North Wales, Warwickshire, Dyfed-Powys and North Yorkshire.
The results, based on Freedom of Information requests, prompted calls for better public transport in rural areas and warnings to anyone tempted to drink and drive over the festive period. A NEW portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh is to go on display in the UK and Denmark next year.
Painted by artist Ralph Heimans, Philip is shown in the imposing setting of Windsor Castle wearing the sash of the Order of the Elephant, Denmark’s highest-ranking honour.
The duke has a close association with the Nordic country as he was born a Prince of Denmark, as well of Greece, before becoming a naturalised British subject in the 1940s.
His grandfather, George I of Greece, was a Danish prince born in Copenhagen, while his great grandfather Christian BRITAIN should “stay aligned” to the European Union after Brexit and there may have to be payments and easy movement of people in order to retain the benefits of the single market and the customs union, the shadow Brexit secretary has said.
Sir Keir Starmer signalled his support for a ‘soft’ Brexit, stating: “We do have a choice, do we want to stay aligned so that we can trade successfully or do we want to tear apart and I say we should stay aligned.”
Labour, he insisted, had been “very clear” that the party wanted a partnership that “retains the benefits of the single market and the customs union” and wanted a new treaty.
Speaking on BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show yesterday, Sir Keir said: “We would start with viable options, staying in a customs union and a single market variant which means full participation in the single market,” adding that it was the only way to achieve no hard border in Northern Ireland.
He went on: “You can’t sweep the customs union and the single market off the table on the one hand and also say you don’t want a hard border in Northern IX was king of Denmark from 1863 to 1906.
Mr Heimans, an Australianborn artist who painted an official portrait of the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee, said: “I feel fortunate to have been given the opportunity to paint Prince Philip and hope the portrait does justice to his unique character.” Ireland – you can’t have no hard border if you don’t have alignment.”
Asked if Theresa May’s deal struck with the EU this week would mean Britain would in perpetuity stay very, very close to the single market and the customs union, he responded: “Yes, and I think that’s the right thing and I think we should hold her to that because that goes to the heart of the question what sort of Britain do we want to be?
“Do we see Europe as our major trading partner in the future, or do we want to rip ourselves apart from that?”
Asked if Britain would have to carry on paying some money in, he said: “Norway pays money in, they do it actually on a
The painting will form part of a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work which is being staged at the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark next year.
The almost full-length portrait will also go on display in the United Kingdom some time in 2018. voluntary basis – there may have to be payments, that’s to be negotiated.”
On freedom of movement, he said: “Well, that would have to be negotiated, but the end of free movement doesn’t mean no movement. Of course, we would want people to come from the EU to work here, we would want people who are here to go and work in the EU, the basis of that would have to be negotiated.”
Speaking about regulations and standards, Sir Keir added that if the UK wanted the benefits of the single market and the customs union “you’ve got to stay on the same level playing field”.
He said: “We are very comfortable with staying on a level playing field.”
Asked if Labour would call for a second referendum, he replied: “We haven’t called for a second referendum – things are moving so fast it’s hard to know what’s going to come next, but we are not calling for it.”
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry stressed the need for managed migration, telling BBC One’s Sunday Politics: “It would be economically ridiculous for us to march off into the middle of the Atlantic and say we turn our backs on the EU.”