Keir Starmer’s simply offered out Brexit – his newest transfer provides 80m individuals a go into the UK | Politics | News | EUROtoday

It’s no shock that the person who campaigned not just for Britain to stay within the European Union in the course of the 2016 referendum, however subsequently spent years making an attempt to overturn the democratic vote of 17.4million individuals, continues on his warpath to deliver Britain again into Brussels’ orbit now that he has the keys to No 10.

In reality, Keir Starmer’s whole Cabinet is stacked to the brim with dyed-in-the-wool Remainers. Many of them strongly advocated for the Brexit vote to be blocked in Parliament. So when the Prime Minister admits that he’s “multiple ways” for Britain to get nearer to the EU, Brits shall be rightly fearful {that a} full-blown betrayal is being cooked up within the corridors of Whitehall.

This weekend, Starmer doubled down on his keenness to see Britain again beneath the thumb of eurocrats in Brussels, suggesting that Labour might drive Britain again into the EU single market, inextricably tying our economic system with the failing financial mannequin of Europe.

Let’s not neglect that merely rejoining the one market means Britain must hand over our hard-won sovereignty, settle for freedom of motion, and shackle ourselves to the EU’s stagnant and over-regulated economic system.

One of the core 4 freedoms – because the EU describes it – and a prerequisite of becoming a member of the one market is freedom of motion.

A return to the one market wouldn’t simply be a historic betrayal of the 2016 vote, however would additionally shatter Labour’s clear and unambiguous election pledge that, beneath a Labour authorities, Britain would by no means settle for freedom of motion.

Yet, Labour’s actions are these of a celebration that has an uncompromising ideological obsession with open borders. Their uncapped proposals for a UK-EU youth mobility scheme might imply that 80million Europeans would qualify for British visas – rising to a possible 150million if candidate international locations corresponding to Albania be a part of the bloc.

Aside from fully shattering what little belief the general public has left on this Government, tying our economic system to that of Germany – which is within the thralls of a multi-year recession – and France, which has gone by 5 prime ministers in simply two years, can be financial and political suicide.

Let me be clear: if the Prime Minister’s final goal is to return us to the flailing EU membership, Reform UK is able to maintain him to account. The British individuals need to have their democratic will revered – not undermined.

Richard Tice is Reform UK’s deputy chief