Almost a decade on from the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, Brexit is back on the agenda for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government as it tries to fend off the threat from Nigel Farage.
Members of Starmer’s administration are starting to argue privately for him to break with past caution on Brexit and make a premiership-defining decision to take the UK much closer to the EU, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke anonymously about internal strategy.