Nigel Farage tonight branded David Lammy a “fanatical EU rejoiner” as he tore aside Labour’s Brexit plan. In a speech at Chatham Home earlier at the moment, the shadow overseas secretary stated the celebration would work to spice up commerce and enhance relations with Brussels below a Sir Keir Starmer premiership, however not rejoin the only market or customs union.

However Mr Farage claimed Labour’s plan is “full-blown Brexit in identify solely” which might see Britain “align ourselves as intently as potential to just about all the things the EU does”.

Talking on his GB Information present, the previous Brexit Occasion chief stated: “The large message is we is not going to be rejoining the only market, we is not going to be rejoining the EU.

“Nicely after all he needed to say that, the Pink Wall in any case wouldn’t wish to hear any totally different.

“But when you do not know who David Lammy is he is a fully fanatical EU rejoiner.

“And he even in contrast the European Analysis Group, that backbench group of Eurosceptics within the Conservative Occasion, he even in contrast them to Nazis and when he was challenged on it he stated that time period presumably wasn’t sturdy sufficient.

“However the language is fairly clear, he desires to reconnect with Europe. He says by no means once more should we be remoted in our personal continent. He runs by way of a listing of issues the place we’ve to work extra intently with our European companions.

“He will take away friction to commerce, kind the Northern Irish drawback.

“In overseas coverage he makes it completely clear that we might not have an unbiased overseas coverage, we might do it collectively and that goes for safety, local weather change motion and far else moreover.

“What he is actually speaking about is full-blown Brexit in identify solely once we align ourselves as intently as potential to just about all the things the EU does.

“After which perhaps come a second Labour time period if that was to occur, the argument is nicely we’re obeying the entire guidelines we could as nicely have a say.

“So I am not for one second suggesting {that a} Keir Starmer landslide means we rejoin the EU. We cannot, that is not going to occur, however successfully it is not going to be Brexit in any respect.”

In his speech, Mr Lammy insisted Labour will search to “repair the Tories’ unhealthy Brexit deal” if voted into energy on the subsequent common election.

The shadow cupboard minister stated: “It has been a central precept of British technique for hundreds of years that we must always by no means discover ourselves remoted in our personal continent. However that’s precisely what this Authorities has performed.”

Mr Lammy stated Labour is “not afraid” to discuss the “injury the Authorities’s unhealthy Brexit deal has performed to our economic system”.

He stated: “Funding down, development sluggish or non-existent, 45 p.c of companies say they’re having difficulties buying and selling with the EU, the quantity exporting to Europe has fallen by a 3rd. In the midst of a cost-of-living disaster, it is a scandal.”