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KEIR STARMER officially announced his candidacy for the Labour leadership today after accepting that Britain will leave the EU, adding that the party needs to “move on” from the referendum debate.
The pro-EU shadow Brexit secretary was one of the senior Labour MPs pushing for the party to back a second referendum.
Now, setting out his stall for his leadership after Labour’s heavy defeat in last month’s general election, he admitted that Britain should accept the 2016 referendum result.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity
