Labour to rule out Brexit reversal and unveil plan to resolve NI protocol issues

Keir Starmer: ‘The question on the ballot paper – leaving or remaining in the EU – is now in the past.’ Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Keir Starmer is to set out his vision for Brexit, promising to remove a series of trade and travel barriers while insisting that the debate on any UK return to the single market or customs union is definitively closed.

In a speech on Monday evening, the Labour leader will argue that the big questions over EU membership are “in the past”, completing his own policy journey on the subject, having previously pushed for a second referendum and then the return of free movement.