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‘We can do so much better’: Starmer’s ex-Brexit minister on pushing closer ties with EU

‘We can do so much better’: Starmer’s ex-Brexit minister on closer ties with EU

Nick Thomas-Symonds said closer UK-EU ties are a ‘win-win’ in the Putin and Trump era – and suggested the Starmer government would have triggered a similar process to Andy Burnham

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