This is a Daily Mail headline - a rag (I hesitate to use the term newspaper) who’s view on the matter is that if we are not actively sending ICBMs on an hourly basis to Brussels we are getting too close to the EU.
Starmer is (stupidly IMO but there we go) wedded to “Making Brexit Work” - this is a bit like vowing to make a chocolate fireguard work but not planning to switch to a more suitable material from which to fabricate said device.
Even Starmer’s hesitant approaches to reduce some  of the friction between us and the EU - amounting to no more than not actively trying to make the relationship and trade actually worse will always produce this incontinent screaming from such publications.
But it does not mean he is about to overturn Brexit - even if a substantial majority in the UK would probably support it.
You’re citing an article in the Daily Fail as “news”?
I particularly like the quote from Kemi Badenough saying that the Labour Government “in every negotiation… has given away everything for nothing in return.”
I seem to recall that’s what the previous administration did in every one of their post-Brexit “Really Great Trade Deals”.
PS “betraying Brexit” is called “changing your mind” - which a majority of the UK population seem to have already done, according to multiple opinion polls.
PPS - also on the subject of “betraying the Brexit vote” - the 2016 referendum was merely advisory - the Cameron Government and its successors were under no obligation to follow through on it, let alone enact it in a form which far exceeded what was offered by the Leave campaign (whose “deal” was essentially “have your cake and eat it”, not “sorry no more cake for you ever”).
And referenda are not irrevocable or permanently binding - if they were then we should not have had the 2016 Brexit referendum as the previous one in 1975, in which we voted to stay in the EEC, would have prevented it.
The Daily Mail is a comic.
No. Viz is a comic. The Daily Mail’s only possible use is as a firelighter - metaphorically and literally.
Freedom of movement tied to European Customs Union membership is 100% back on the cards … if the EU will have us and if we accept tge terms they lay down.
Andy Burnham, “The big lie of Brexit needs to be exposed”
“They promised us it would control immigration, it’s done the opposite… It’s weakened control of immigration”
Said today in the context of renewed relations with the EU and immigration management.
Unfortunately, I think this is over-optimistic.
Perhaps, but bear in mind, I did include caveats.
The status quo is unsustainable and polls show a change in attitude.incuding support for freedom of movement tied to CU membership. And that’s before visas focus smaller minds.
Yes, but as I’ve posted previously, a lot of this optimism is from UK sources and whatever concessions occur are granted won’t come from the UK.
Are those two statements so different?
Fair enough! But I was referring to how this sort of thing is continually reported in the UK press
I get the impression that Brexit supporters account for a sizable proportion of Labour and Conservative activists. Which means that neither party can come out publicly for change because they cannot rely on their members to back them.
Aren’t they now a minority? (70/30 ish)
It probably depends on the demographic you select, but it may also be that they form a larger proportion of activists than those for the EU.