Exclusive: Lord Ricketts said the prime minster has an opportunity to put Britain back at the ‘heart’ of major decisions in Europe when he meets EU leaders on Monday
Britain being an independent country terrifies Starmer because he knows the buck stops with him, and he can’t blame faceless EU bureaucrats when he cocks up, which currently he’s doing on an alarmingly regular basis.
Sir Keir Starmer will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz over the weekend, Downing Street has confirmed. The two leaders are due to meet on Sunday, and comes as the Government is looking to reset its relationship with the European Union.
Sir Keir Starmer is to be told to accept more than 70 million migrants by EU leaders in a fresh Brexit betrayal in just a few days' time. On Monday, the Prime Minister will head to Brussels for talks on a new UK-EU security deal - but as German ambassador Miguel Berger warned GB News last month,
Sir Keir Starmer is facing pressure from European leaders to join a €500 billion defence scheme, amid threats to Nato by Donald Trump.
No 10 sidesteps the issue after Brussels trade chief says the UK joining Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention is ‘something we could consider’
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch urged the Prime Minister to drop his ‘anti-growth’ Employment Rights Bill.
Defence is already an area where the UK and EU have close co-operation, but if Labour ministers get their way, they would like that collaboration to spread further. Since entering government, Starmer has made clear his government is keen to “reset” relations between the UK and EU.
Relations between presidents and prime ministers aren’t always easy, even without Elon Musk weighing in with his views.
Sir Keir Starmer’s red lines of not rejoining the European Union’s single market or customs union mean any “reset” is likely to be limited, a major report on the fifth anniversary of Brexit has found.
Franco-German proposals to reform and expand the EU outline a flexible, multi-tiered structure, with ‘concentric circles of integration’ at its core. It envisions additional tiers for candidate countries,