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How Starmer managed to have his cake and eat it with new Brexit deal

How Starmer managed to have his cake and eat it with new Brexit deal

During the Brexit negotiations after the referendum, the notion that Britain could have a trade deal with the US or India while still having favourable access to the EU was sneered at as impossible. But in a single month Sir Keir Starmer has achieved it, explains The Independent’s political editor David Maddox

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