Keir Starmer: British are “open and tolerant” but on free movement the “status quo is not an option”Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, said in a speech yesterday that seeking changes to free movement would “make a deal on single market access harder,” but that, nevertheless, “The status quo is not an option.” Starmer said that the ‘tens of thousands’ net migration target was “completely discredited,” having raised “Brexit expectations which cannot be fulfilled without seriously harming our economy and public services.” Instead, he argued that while “The direction of travel needs to be downwards, I don’t think setting …read more
Source: Open Europe
