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Labour would ‘reset’ the Tory negotiations with Brussels, tearing up Theresa May’s ‘red lines and inflexibility’ if they came to power before Brexit, Sir Keir Starmer said today.

The Shadow Brexit Secretary said membership a customs union and our relationship with the single market would both be put back on the table.

It came as Mrs May’s hopes to break the Brexit deadlock were dashed today after Downing Street admitted there was "more work to be done".

Sir Keir slammed the Prime Minister for making the talks more difficult by taking options off the table before the negotiations had really begun.

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He accepted that his plan would not make the negotiations easy, but that it would make them easier.

And he said the government was so “incredibly weak” that Labour had to stand ready to take over the process.

“Labour would start with options back on the table, including remaining within a customs union, subject of course to the negotiation,” he said in a speech in London.

“Including a changed relationship with the single market. Including a new role for the European court of Justice or an independent court to oversee future EU/UK relationships. I accept this is a harder argument to make, but on the complex issues facing us we shouldn’t settle for quick, easy solutions.”

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He added: “Labour has to stand ready to take over and if that were to happen we would reset the negotiations.

“We would bring a new approach, set new priorities. We’d make an immediate offer on transitional arrangements to provide certainty and reassurance to businesses and we’d seek a new and strong future partnership based on our shared values of cooperation and collaboration.”

Mrs May held crunch talks with EU Council President Donald Tusk yesterday (FRI) in Sweden, as the latest Brexit deadline edges closer.

The Prime Minister is hoping for trade negotiations to be given the green light next month.

But No 10 said that while the talks were "positive' they failed to end the impasse.

"Prime Minister May and President Tusk agreed that there is more work to be done and discussed how to take further steps forward together in advance of the European Council in December," a Downing Street spokesman said.

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EU leaders have said “sufficient progress” is needed on the three issues before teams can discuss the future UK-EU relationship.

Speaking after talks, Mr Tusk said the EU has completed the internal work necessary to give the green light for talks on trade and transition to begin at the next European Council summit in Brussels on December 14-15.

But he said that "much more progress" was needed from the UK on two of the three key issues in withdrawal talks in order to break the deadlock which has prevented the move to the second phase of negotiations which the UK is seeking.

"We will be ready to move on to the second phase already in December, but in order to do that we need to see more progress from the UK side," said Mr Tusk.

"While good progress on citizens' rights is being made, we need to see much more progress on Ireland and on the financial settlement."

He said he had told Mrs May that "this progress needs to happen at the beginning of December at the latest".

Brexit Secretary David Davis appeared to blame France and Germany for stalling progress. “What they believe is very influential,” he told the BBC.

“Countries like Denmark, countries like Holland, countries like Italy and Spain, countries like Poland can see the big, big benefits in the future deal we are talking about.”