KEIR Starmer has doubled down on his support for Brexit as he pledged to get behind the “take back control” slogan of the Leave campaign.
During a new year speech in east London, the Labour leader said he wanted to “embrace” the message as he admitted he sympathised with the “basic case” Leave voters made to him during the 2016 referendum while he campaigned for Remain.
He said the centrepiece of Labour’s first King’s speech if they win the election would be a “Take Back Control Bill” that he claimed would deliver a new approach to politics and democracy, as he insisted it was not “unreasonable” to recognise "the desire of communities to stand on their own two feet".
