The Labour party is on a charm offensive – not with Brits, but with our European cousins over the water. Keir Starmer has unveiled plans to drop the Rwanda deportation programme and cosy back up to Brussels in the hope of striking a new asylum deal. But it seems Labour’s plans to present themselves as the party who will kiss and make up with the EU following Brexit might be much grander still.
Taking to the airwaves, Labour shadow foreign secretary David Lammy lined up to take a pop at the Tories and woo the EU all in one fell swoop. ‘There are two visions of Britain’, he said, speaking to Nish Kumar and Coco Khan on their Pod Save the UK podcast. ‘There’s “Great Britain” that looks outward and there’s “little England” that is isolated and looks inward.’
No prizes from Mr Steerpike for guessing which ‘vision’ Lammy thought the Conservative party represented.
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