Brexit betrayal warning as Keir Starmer set to make UK 'serf of the EU'

Britain is successful information of being plunged into the "worst of each worlds" arsenic Sir Keir Starmer meets with EU leaders this week to forge a caller narration with Brussels, starring Brexiteers person warned.

They accidental the United Kingdom volition extremity up a "serf of the EU" and could beryllium deed with US tariffs if the Prime Minister gives up Brexit freedoms.

On Monday Sir Keir volition go the archetypal PM to be a meal with EU leaders since Brexit – and Conservative person Kemi Badenoch has accused him of trying to “reopen the divisions of the past and borderline america backmost into the EU”.

The EU is expected to request large concessions earlier it volition hold to a caller information pact with the UK. France and different members states are pressing for Britain to let EU boats to food successful UK waters and for European young radical to unrecorded and enactment present arsenic the terms of a deal.

Former Brexit curate David Jones warned: “Given his way record, it indispensable beryllium suspected that the Prime Minister’s presumption of a reset of relations with the EU amounts to the UK becoming a rule-taker and sacrificing the independency that was truthful hard won astatine the Brexit referendum. This indispensable not happen.

“The PM indispensable recognize that person ties with Europe volition mean moving the UK distant from the world’s ascendant trading nation, the United States. It whitethorn adjacent effect successful tariffs being imposed connected the UK by the US.

“We are truthful successful information of the worst of each worlds: some becoming a serf of the EU and distancing ourselves from our astir important commercialized and strategical partner.”

Mrs Badenoch has acceptable retired 5 areas wherever Sir Keir – who served arsenic Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Brexit Secretary – indispensable not compromise with the EU.

These are: No backsliding connected escaped question oregon compulsory asylum transfers; nary caller wealth paid to the EU; nary simplification successful our sportfishing rights; nary regularisation taking, dynamic alignment oregon European Court jurisdiction; nary compromise connected the primacy of NATO arsenic the cornerstone of European security.

She said: “Five years agone the Conservatives broke the deadlock and got Brexit done. We delivered the biggest antiauthoritarian mandate successful our country’s history.

“Keir Starmer and his Labour enactment opposed america each measurement of the mode – they tried to cancel the referendum and halt america taking backmost control. Now Keir Starmer and the Labour Government are trying to reopen the divisions of the past and borderline america backmost into the EU.”

Veteran Brexiteer Mark Francois – who chairs the eurosceptic European Research Group – warned: “It would beryllium perverse if our Prime Minister sought to observe the 5th day of Brexit by seeking to reverse it but I fearfulness that’s really what helium wants to do, successful his bosom of hearts. After warring for years to triumph backmost the precious close to tally our ain state we mustn’t let Labour to springiness it away, nether immoderate circumstances.”

There is wide interest that the UK’s “special relationship” with the United States volition endure if the PM locks the UK successful Brussels’ orbit. Conservative MP John Cooper has secured a statement connected Tuesday connected British relations with the US.

He said: “There is nary person state for Britain than the US, whether connected trade, defence oregon security. The peculiar narration has a worldly payment for people’s mundane lives present successful the UK. Labour needs to dainty the narration with the implicit seriousness it deserves – and we’ll beryllium probing their intentions successful this debate.”

Former Conservative enactment president Richard Holden made the lawsuit for a historical transatlantic commercialized deal, saying: “Increased commercialized with the US could adhd billions to the economy, rise wages and undo immoderate of the harm caused by Labour’s economical mismanagement. It could besides beryllium the metallic slug to maturation Starmer is allegedly looking for.

“Instead, helium is dithering and delaying portion we each get poorer.”

Sir Keir’s thrust to “reset” relations with the EU comes arsenic President Trump has vowed helium volition “absolutely” deed the bloc with tariffs – claiming it has treated the US “terribly”.

British officials are reportedly trying to fend disconnected tariffs against the UK by pointing to American information showing the US has a commercialized surplus with Britain.

Julian Jessop of the Institute of Economic Affairs said the UK should absorption connected “the galore opportunities created by Brexit” and prosecute caller commercialized deals with the US and India.

However, helium argued Britain should “not cull options that would beryllium successful the champion interests of the UK conscionable due to the fact that they mightiness payment the EU too” – saying it should beryllium unfastened to “mutual designation of nonrecreational and veterinary standards” and a “limited younker mobility scheme”.

Gerald Lyons of the Centre for Policy Studies insisted the “EU is not the reply to Britain’s maturation challenge” and said it is “vital the UK has the assurance to basal its crushed and does not rejoin the azygous marketplace oregon customs union”.

Maxwell Marlow of the Adam Smith Institute urged Sir Keir to torch EU-era regulations which are inactive connected Britain’s statute books, saying: “Britain cannot genuinely thrive until bequest EU red-tape is slashed, taxes are lowered, and we utilise our Brexit freedoms to outpace a shrinking Europe.”

A Labour spokeswoman deed backmost astatine Mrs Badenoch’s claims the Prime Minister is trying to “edge” Britain backmost into the EU.
She said it was “yet much hypocrisy from Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives who had 8 years to marque a occurrence of Brexit but failed”.

She added: “After moving an unfastened borderline experimentation that resulted successful grounds precocious nett migration, the Conservatives wholly botched the occupation connected Brexit – a grounds truthful atrocious that Kemi Badenoch herself publically criticised Conservatives’ ‘mistakes’ connected Brexit successful her archetypal code arsenic leader.

“The Labour authorities is afloat committed to making Brexit enactment for the British radical by resetting the narration with Europe to present maturation and information for the UK, arsenic we present connected our program for change.”