Labour leadership contest: Keir Starmer defends Brexit policy

Favourite to succeed Jeremy Corbyn says party was right and should have gone further

Keir Starmer has defended Labour’s Brexit policy after claims from colleagues that it was the reason for the party’s worst election defeat since 1935.

The shadow Brexit secretary said Labour’s plan to renegotiate another deal and then put it to a public vote, and to decide at at later stage whether to back leave or remain, was the right position to take.

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