'Very small' Brexit trade deal with Pacific no match for EU, Starmer told

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Keir Starmer has been urged to "get serious" about boosting the economy and forge closer links with the EU as the UK prepares to formally join a partnership of Asia-Pacific countries he once said would yield "very small" benefits.
53% : "This will strengthen ties and tackle barriers to trade with the EU, to grow our economy and make working people better off*"
52% : The prime minister has vowed to reset the UK's relationship with the EU, fixing it for the benefit of "generations to come".
51% : At the time the Labour leader added that it was "good to have a new trade deal, but better to have a closer relationship with the EU to go alongside it".Dominic Grieve, co-president of European Movement UK, said: "Whatever the benefits of being part of the CPTPP, they can never come close to the benefits to the UK economy of being part of the single market.
49% : Were Britain to rejoin the EU, it would have to leave the CPTPP as separate free trade agreements are incompatible with being inside Europe's single market and customs union.
42% : "A Department for Business and Trade spokesperson said:"The UK is pursuing a twin track approach to trade, implementing CPTPP, as well as pursuing free trade agreements with the likes of India and the GCC, while simultaneously resetting the relationship with our European friends.

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