Keir Starmer hailed the impact of the UK’s ‘reset’ deal with the EU in May. It included a new sanitary & phytosanitary (SPS) agreement, which promised to slash red tape for cross-border trade and “lower food prices at the checkout”.

The “win-win” agreement would offer “unprecedented access to the EU market, said the PM. It also stuck to the “red lines in our manifesto” about not rejoining the single market, the customs union or returning to freedom of movement, he said