“I will renegotiate the Brexit agreement”, said Keir Starmer, the UK Labor leader, as the country prepares for a general election. And he added he said he will seek a “much better deal” with the European Union in the 2025 review..
The statements of Sir Keir Starmer, a former crown attorney and successful lawyer specializing in human rights to the British newspaper Financial Times They took place in Montreal, where he attended a meeting of defenders of the Third Way, in which the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Troudeau and the former British Labor Prime Minister, Tony Blair, participated.
Brexit is no longer popular in Great Britain, after the referendum that consecrated it and divided the country. The proportion of people who think Brexit and leaving the EU was a right or wrong decision between 2020-2023 has changed. It is no longer popular.
In August 2023, the 55 percent of people in Britain thought it was a mistake to leave the European Unioncompared to 33 percent who thought it was the right decision.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. AFP Photo
Starmer outlined a plan to manage the effects of Brexit. “I think more can be accomplished across the board,” he said.
In 2025
Keir Starmer will seek “a major renegotiation of Britain’s relationship with the European Union”, if the opposition Labor Party wins the next election.
In an interview with Financial Timesthe Labor leader, who polls show is on course to become Britain’s next prime minister, has pledged to carry out a significant rewrite of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the UK and the EU.
That agreement, reached by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, will be reviewed in 2025.
“Almost everyone recognizes that the deal Johnson reached is not a good deal. It’s too thin,” Starmer said. “As we approach 2025, “We will try to get a much better deal for the UK.”he assured.
“I think more can be achieved in all areas,” he added. Starmer cited security, innovation and research as areas where closer ties could be sought, the Financial Times reported.
Since taking over as leader, Starmer has emphasized that he accepts Brexit. He repeatedly ruled out reversing the 2016 referendum result or attempting to rejoin the EU’s customs union or single market.
“Make it work”
Instead, he has argued that the UK Conservatives have failed to know make the most of his exit from the block.
“We have to make it work,” Starmer said. “It’s not about going back in. But I refuse to accept that we can’t make it work. “I think of future generations when I say that.”
“I have a 15-year-old son and a 12-year-old daughter. I’m not going to let them grow up in a world where all I have to tell them about their future is to say, ‘It’s going to be worse than it could have been otherwise.'” .
Starmer made the comments at a meeting of center-left leaders in Montreal.
At the same meeting, he told Politico’s Anne McElvoy that the UK should “leave aside” China.
On the country’s exit from the EU, he stated: “I firmly believe that since Brexit, there has been a feeling that we have not simply left the EU. In some ways we have turned our backs on the world and wherever you go, people feel almost the absence of the United Kingdom, once a leading voice and now rarely consulted“.
2023-09-18 21:40:57
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