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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n Two-thirds of 2024 Labour voters <\/a>would rather Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> abandon his Brexit red lines<\/a> and join a customs union<\/a> with the European Union<\/a> than raise taxes on working people<\/a>, new polling has revealed. <\/p>\n It comes after reports that the prime minister<\/a> rejected calls from his chief economic adviser for Britain to rejoin the EU\u2019s customs union in an attempt to improve growth ahead of the Budget, with the chancellor instead choosing to impose \u00a326bn worth of tax rises<\/a> after asking \u201cordinary people to pay a little bit more”. <\/p>\n The Savanta poll showed that fewer than one in five (18 per cent) Labour voters would prefer the government to raise taxes and continue to stay outside the EU’s customs union.<\/a><\/p>\n Some 67 per cent backed rejoining the customs union instead of raising taxes, the polling commissioned by the Liberal Democrats showed. <\/p>\n Overall, just over half (52 per cent) of UK adults said they would rather the government joined a customs union with the EU than raise taxes. Just one in five (21 per cent) said the opposite. <\/p>\n