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Nick Thomas Symonds has gone to Brussels to mark a reset in Britain's relationship with the European Union.
The new EU relations minister met the bloc's vice-president Maros Sefcovic for the pair's first face-to-face talks on Monday to set the stage for future discussions on deepening ties.
Labour is desperate to fix the damage done to relations between the UK and EU through years of bad faith negotiations and threats over a "no deal" Brexit.
And the party is determined to improve upon the "botched" deal eventually struck by Boris Johnson with the bloc.
But EU figures have repeatedly warned that friendlier faces alone will not be enough for a major shakeup of the deal. Sir Keir Starmer has drawn red lines over freedom of movement, the customs union and the single market.
For significant progress to be made, Labour will have to start thinking about what it is prepared to give.
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