The Liberal Democrats would keep Britain a full member of the single market after Brexit "at the very minimum", and are calling for a second referendum on the terms of the Brexit deal.
A Labour government would scrap Theresa May's plan for Brexit and offer a unilateral guarantee to three million European Union citizens that they can continue to live in the UK, Sir Keir Starmer will say today.
Sir Keir made the commitments in a speech in London aimed at bringing clarity to Labour's policy on Brexit, which has left some voters confused ahead of June's general election.
Mr Starmer told BBC radio Mrs May's stance was part of her "rigid" and "reckless " strategy that was alienating European Union negotiators before the talks have started in earnest and that Labour would set a more conciliatory tone to win a good deal which would include preferential access to the bloc's single market.
She added: "Every vote I receive will help me secure the best deal to strengthen our economy".
He said there was "no clearer signal" that Labour wanted to build a close and collaborative future relationship with Brussels.
A Labour government would commit to securing the residency rights of European Union nationals on "day one", he made clear, as they do more than simply "contribute" economically but are "part of society".
Labour would reset the "failing approach to Brexit" taken by May's Conservative government, Keir Starmer, Labour's shadow Brexit minister, said in a campaign speech.
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"As it now stands membership of the single market is incompatible with our clarity about the fact that freedom of movement rules have to change", he said, adding that "freedom of movement will have to end".
"But there is a real risk of Jeremy Corbyn with the support of the SNP and Lib Dems becoming Prime Minister and being in charge of the Brexit negotiations".
Starmer said Labour's strategy would seek to retain the benefits of the single market and customs union, and prioritise jobs and the economy rather than curbing immigration.
She added: "The choice is between that and a Labour Party whose natural instinct is always to put up taxes".
That gives her the freedom to focus on Brexit and a handful of other measures which she might otherwise have struggled to get past even her own party, such as new selective grammar schools, or those which are less traditionally associated with the Conservatives' laissez-faire economic policy.
Labour also wants to ditch the Government's Great Repeal Bill, which Sir Keir claimed would harm protections for workers and hit environmental safeguards.
She will give the warning as she addresses the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Aviemore, where she will also challenge the Tories over their failure to guarantee the rights of EU citizens now living in Britain. "How that's managed will have to be resolved but the last thing we want is for our businesses to go bankrupt".
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