It’s no surprise that the man who spent years trying to overturn the historic result continues on his warpath to bring Britain back into Brussels’ orbit
Keir Starmer hopes a new ‘reset’ deal with the EU will be rubberstamped in 2027 (Image: Getty)
Keir Starmer is laughing in the face of the 17.4million people who voted for Brexit. The Labour leader is hellbent on reversing the historic democratic vote, which resulted in Britain leaving the EU almost six years ago.
His latest plot – to hand the EU new powers that could allow Brussels to alter UK law. It will effectively allow the EU to change British laws in areas such as food standards, animal welfare and pesticide use. And it will mark the first time since Britain left the EU that MPs have been asked to surrender their sovereign right to make laws in certain areas.
Instead, the UK will effectively be expected to comply with regulations from Brussels under a process known as dynamic alignment.
In contrast to when the UK was a member of the EU, the British Government will not have a vote on future laws passed by Brussels that could affect the UK.
It’s no surprise that the man who campaigned not only for Britain to remain in the European Union during the 2016 referendum but subsequently spent years trying to overturn the result continues on his warpath to bring Britain back into Brussels’ orbit now that he has the keys to No 10.
In fact, Keir Starmer‘s entire Cabinet is stacked to the brim with dyed-in-the-wool remainers.
Many of them strongly advocated for the Brexit vote to be blocked in Parliament.
So when the Prime Minister admits that he is looking at “multiple ways” for Britain to get closer to the EU, Brits will be rightly worried that a full-blown betrayal is being cooked up.
Starmer’s masterplan for a “reset” with Brussels is gathering pace.
At the weekend, he doubled down on his desire to see Britain back under the thumb of eurocrats in Brussels, suggesting that Labour could force Britain closer to the EU single market.
Before Christmas, the Government announced it is paying £570million to rejoin the Erasmus student exchange programme.
On an annual basis, the sum is double what Boris Johnson rejected as too expensive in 2021.
Keir Starmer, pictured with Ursula von der Leyen, is looking for ‘multiple ways’ for Britain to get closer to the EU (Image: Getty)
It is equivalent to roughly a fifth of the entire EU funding envelope for Erasmus+, although the Government insists a chunk of the money will go on travel for British youngsters.
Worryingly, Brussels has already signalled that a 30% “discount” will not be repeated, meaning the cost could hit £810million a year in future.
Students from Turkey will be eligible to come to the UK in 2027, as the country is an “associate” member of the scheme.
And Brussels has declared it wants to expand the arrangements to cover countries such as Egypt, Algeria and Morocco.
It all adds, Sir Keir hopes, to a new “reset” deal with the EU being rubberstamped in 2027.
And that’s only just the beginning.
