Labour 'scraping bottom of the barrel' with talk of rejoining EU

KEMI Badenoch has savaged Labour’s Brexit betrayal after Sir Sadiq Khan called for Britain to rejoin the European Union.

- BY AARON NEWBURY

The Tory leader accused Labour of wanting to “refight the Brexit fight” and said the party is “scraping the bottom of the barrel” by returning to 2016 policies.

Her comments came after the Remain-backing Mayor of London said Sir Keir Starmer should go into the next election with reversing the democratic decision to leave the bloc on the ballot paper.

Sir Sadiq also called for the Prime Minister to drag the country back into the customs union and the single market before 2029, telling Italian newspaper La Repubblica that bowing to Brussels again is “inevitable”.

Mrs Badenoch accused Labour of wanting to take the country backwards.

She said: “I came into parliament a year after the referendum and I saw what happened when MPs spent three years litigating a referendum where the public gave a very clear verdict.

“I do not want that to happen again.”

Urging people to start talking about “how we compete with Europe”, she issued a rallying call to Brexiteers saying “we can do better... because, let’s face it, Europe has many of the same problems we do”.

Mrs Badenoch suggested that its low growth and lack of innovation were some of the reasons people voted to leave. Rejoining the customs union or the single market would not solve these problems, she said.

Sir Sadiq said cost-of-living pressures meant that “at some stage we are going to rejoin the European Union”.