Trade unions leader calls on Labour to forge closer relationship with Europe

Pro-EU campaigners outside Parliament in London earlier this month Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Keir Starmer should seek out a far closer relationship with Europe, including a possible customs union, the head of the TUC has said.

Paul Nowak, TUC general secretary, said the British public recognised the need for a vastly improved trading arrangement and said it had become more urgent than ever because of the fickle nature of the relationship with Donald Trump’s United States.