If it's in our national interest then we should consider that, we should go that far, he told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg. In a riposte to some cabinet colleagues who have suggested the UK should seek to form a customs union with the EU, Starmer said he did not think that was the answer. We are better looking to the single market rather than the customs union for our further alignment, he said.
In a ruling in regards to two Polish citizens who married in Germany, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said that EU member states are obliged to recognise a union between two EU citizens which has "lawfully concluded in another member state" and where the couple in question have "exercised their freedom to move and reside".