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Originally Posted by Damien
I think the more immediate risk if you're a Brexiter is the prospect of a customs union. I don't think we're long from a Government working out that solves far more issues right now in terms of NI, Calais and imports than it will cause them trouble with voters.
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I think all but the most zealous of Brexiters acknowledge that Johnson's deal was not an oven-ready one but a half-baked one, and and a closer relationship with our main trading partner to reduce trade friction and raise GDP and tax revenues is needed.
The trade-offs are becoming clearer now the fog of Covid has lifted but this issue is one for the next government and not the embers of the current one given the divisive influence of the ERG on the current government.
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In a joint interview with the FT in the Labour leader’s Westminster office, Starmer and Reeves berated Rishi Sunak, prime minister, for not going to Davos this year and said they would be touting for investment.
Key for Starmer is revamping Britain’s post-Brexit EU relationship. The government’s own forecasters say that Johnson’s “bare bones” trade deal with the EU would cost the UK 4 per cent of gross domestic product in the medium term.
“The damage to our economy is obvious as every day passes,” he said. “We have to be clear that we want a closer trading relationship with the EU.”
Labour has already said it wants a veterinary deal with the EU to ease the most strenuous border checks on food.
The Labour leader said he would not take Britain back into the EU or the single market; he fears alienating the 30 per cent of his party’s supporters who backed Leave in 2016 and reopening old arguments.
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https://www.ft.com/content/a13f684f-...e-55bb3ce55712