PM: UK ready to align with EU single market

THE UK is prepared to align even more closely with the EU single market if the move is in the national interest, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

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The Prime Minister insisted Britain should “go further” in strengthening post-Brexit ties with Brussels following a trade deal agreed earlier last year.

But he appeared to pour cold water on suggestions the UK should rejoin a customs union with the bloc after his Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the arrangement had “enormous economic benefits”.

Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg show, the Prime Minister pointed to steps taken to align with the EU more closely on agriculture and food, adding: “That's the sovereign decision that we have taken.