Labour leader Keir Starmer has pledged to attempt a major rewrite of the Brexit deal with Brussels if Labour wins the next General Election
“Almost everyone” recognises the deal Boris Johnson struck is “not a good deal – it’s far too thin”, Starmer told the Financial Times. “We will attempt to get a much better deal for the UK.”
The Labour leader has framed the Brussels reset as a personal one, saying he owes it to his children, aged 12 and 15, along with the rest of their generation to deliver a substantially better relationship with Europe
Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal is due for review in 2025 which Starmer says presents an opportunity “to get a much better deal for the U.K.”
Starmer told the Financial Times he would put a closer trading relationship with Brussels at the heart of drive for economic growth. “Almost everyone recognises the deal Johnson struck is not a good deal — it’s far too thin,” he said
In the interview,he told the paper :
“I feel very strongly that since Brexit, there’s been a sense that we’ve not just exited the EU, that we’ve somehow turned our back on the world and wherever you go people feel almost the absence of the U.K., once a leading voice, now rarely consulted.”
