Labour U turn to oblivion?

 This is what the Graun suspects today:

‘Is it a U-turn?’: what Keir Starmer has said about Brexit redress

Labour leader’s latest words on Brexit close door on former ambition to soften or overturn it

Keir Starmer felt so strongly about the Brexit referendum result in June 2016 that he quit as a junior shadow minister under Jeremy Corbyn.

A few months later he returned to the Labour frontbench as shadow Brexit secretary and spent the next four years campaigning to mitigate the result, which he described as “catastrophic”, while at the same time retaining voters in “red wall” constituencies.

But he was a remainer.

He campaigned against a no-deal Brexit and for a second referendum to give the people a “confirmatory vote” on any deal with Brussels.

Yet in a speech on Monday night the Labour leader will make clear that the party will neither seek to reverse Brexit nor soften Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit by returning to the single market which included the free movement of people and goods across the EU.

The article has lots of past quotes indicating Starmer's clear intention to remain or rejoin, and leaves its own question unanswered, but in another piece, there is a different emphasis:

Labour’s approach is to seek to de-dramatise the issue, by focusing on practicalities, instead of reopening old political wounds:

 Labour says there is a “landing zone” in negotiations between the two sides, however, which would include seeking a veterinary agreement to cover agricultural goods, allowing many of the cumbersome checks to be lifted.

For other goods, Labour says it would work with businesses in Northern Ireland to put in place a trusted trader scheme to reduce the proportion of exports that need to be subject to checks.

Starmer says Labour wants to negotiate mutual recognition of professional qualifications with the EU, for example, to allow UK professionals such as lawyers to practise more easily in the EU and vice versa.

And Labour would seek access to cross-border scientific endeavours such as Horizon

Starmer argues that the current standoff over the protocol is hampering the UK’s ability to collaborate with the EU on other issues, including security – and says Labour would try to strike a new agreement.  

Point five, perhaps the least developed, is broadly about what the UK can now do to maximise the benefits of being outside the EU. Starmer says Labour would “use green investment and a commitment to buy, make and sell in Britain to ensure we are best placed to compete on a global stage”.

He also suggests the party would take a new approach to trade, which would “put people, communities, rights, and standards at its very heart”, though it is unclear what that would mean in practice.

 almost the most striking element of it is what he says he will not do – argue for the UK to rejoin the single market, or restore free movement.

As he puts it: “With Labour, Britain will not go back into the EU. We will not be joining the single market. We will not be joining a customs union. We will not return to freedom of movement to create short-term fixes.”...he now believes there is little to be won electorally from revisiting the issue, and whatever the hopes of many party members, hopes to, as he puts it, “move on”.

Couple of obvious points -- (1) what will happen to the Remainer/ Islington Tendency in the Party? Off to the LibDems? (2) will the former Labour supporters who voted Brexit be convinced and return to the fold? 

No chance