Keir Starmer has been accused of “betraying the 2016 Brexit vote” by seeking, in his “Brexit Reset” a closer relationship with the EU in an effort to improve our economy.
The Labour leader has vowed his EU reset deal will deliver cheaper food and energy for British people, heralding a “win-win” as he sealed the high-stakes agreement with concessions on youth visas and fishing.
“Britain is back on the world stage,” the prime minister said after shaking hands on the deal with the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen in London. “It gives us unprecedented access to the EU market, the best of any country … all while sticking to the red lines in our manifesto.”
Von der Leyen described it as “a historic moment … opening a new chapter in our unique relationship”. But attacks came immediately from right-wing parties.
He is one of many newspaper front pages that have seemingly lost the plot over the deal.
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin hit out at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s deal with the EU, branding it “absolute nonsense”.
Speaking to GB News, the representative for Runcorn and Helsby claimed that the agreement with Brussels marks a “complete betrayal of Brexit”.
Delivering her verdict on Starmer’s deal, Pochin fumed: “This is absolute nonsense. This is an absolute betrayal of Brexit. It’ll come to no surprise to anyone watching this programme that I was an avid Brexiteer, but Keir Starmer is taking us on a slow march back into Europe.
“He is absolutely betraying the will of the British people. Keir Starmer has called this a win-win deal, it’s a lose-lose deal.”
Pochin told GB News: “He sold out the British workers with his Indian trade deal, he sold out the farmers with his US trade deal, and now he has completely sold out the British fishing industry.
“It is finished with this deal, let alone the fact that we will become closer, aligned once again to the European Court of Justice, which we absolutely do not want.”
Comment
Sam Freedman wrote on BlueSky: “Can’t believe Starmer is about to betray Brexit when it has all been going so well.”
Then, he followed it up writing: “Next time I get a cold, I’m going to betray it by having a Lemsip and some ibuprofen.”
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