As Sir Keir Starmer lurches from U-turn to U-turn, many of his MPs want him to do another one: there has been growing pressure for the Prime Minister to ditch his red lines on Brexit.

Ever since he became Labour leader in 2020, he has held firm on those promises – no return to the customs union, no return to the single market, no freedom of movement between the UK and EU. This was a deliberate – and successful – attempt to win back pro-Brexit voters who had abandoned Labour, particularly in the North and Midlands.

The Prime Minister’s “reset” of relations with Brussels has focused on ways Britain can get closer to the EU while staying outside the customs union and single market, such as rejoining the Erasmus student exchange programme and aligning regulations in certain sectors like food standards.

Now he is being pushed to consider the idea of rejoining the customs union, which would make trade smoother by removing the need for checks on many imports and exports. David Lammy and Wes Streeting have openly mused on the potential benefits of such a move, and polling suggests that fully 80 per cent of Labour voters........

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