‘It feels like we never left’: questions over Brexit linger in Essex constituency

Keir Starmer says Britons have moved on but views in seat that voted heavily to exit the EU are more ambivalent

When Keir Starmer was asked last week whether he thought Britons had finally moved on from the issue of Brexit, his answer was a definitive yes.

It’s not difficult to see why the prime minister would hope to settle the question, before a week in which he hopes to reset the UK’s relationship with the European Union, clearing a way for easier access to a marketplace that could help increase the economic growth he badly needs.