"We are talking about the tail end of 2018, we would have a vote, we would go back to the negotiating table".
Labour shadow secretary Sir Keir Starmer has delivered his speech in London, saying that his party accepts that the UK's relationship with the European Union must change but does not want to sever ties with the bloc.
Outlining the strategy Labour must adopt, he rejected any attempt to stick to the "conventional election response of an opposition" such as urging, "vote Labour to keep the Tories out and return a Labour government". Some 44 percent of the UK's exports go to the European Union, while the City of London's financial services are accessed across the continent.
He said: "The four nations that make up our great country have rarely been more divided due to the damaging and divisive policies of this Conservative government but where Theresa May divides, Labour will unite our four nations".
"Securing that deal is my priority and we have the plan to do it".
"What we've seen today from Labour is, I think, their seventh Brexit plan".
Starmer, speaking with just more than six weeks to go before the general election on 8 June, warned that it would be "dangerous" for the United Kingdom to not meet its obligations since such a move could undermine future trade deals with other nations.
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Responding to Sir Keir's remarks, Brexit Secretary David Davis said Labour's promise not to walk away from exit talks "really undermines" Britain's negotiating position.
Of course it is tough to be honest with the electorate about Brexit when the circumstances surrounding it are in such considerable flux, but the fact that Starmer's remarks manage to drag him into a needless linguistic wrangle over whether or not he was leaving the option open for a second European Union referendum under Labour - he wasn't, and was forced to clarify so when pressed by ITV's political editor Robert Peston - demonstrate just how vague and meaningless most of Labour's commitments on Brexit have been so far.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "Jeremy Corbyn is the genuine article, who has a vision of Britain based on hope not fear, that delivers for working people. And they should not be used as bargaining chips", Starmer said in a speech in London.
Voters, he says, should consider candidates' positions on Brexit, and cast their votes accordingly, backing any candidate regardless of party affiliation on that basis alone.
May has promised to take Britain out of the EU single market and customs union, and she is expected to announce plans to curb EU and non-EU immigration in the Conservatives' election manifesto.
A win for the Conservatives is all the more likely because the uncertainty and economic fallout, while seen in the decline of sterling, have not yet hit the public, which seems to reassure people that Brexit will not be so bad in spite the dystopian scenarios voiced by expert opinion.
However, he refused to be drawn on whether this meant a new deal would include remaining in the EU.
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