Polish PM & ex-EU chief Donald Tusk says he dreams of UK making ‘BRETURN’ to Europe as Keir lobbies from ‘Brexit reset’

POLAND'S premier curate has said it's his "dream" for a "Breturn" alternatively of Brexit arsenic helium discussed a defence pact with Sir Keir Starmer.

Ex-president of the European Council Donald Tusk made the connection portion hosting the PM for discussions connected a UK-Polish defence pact successful Warsaw.

The Polish leader, who was president of the European Council successful the years Britain exited the EU, said that for "obvious" reasons the brace talked connected the "cooperation betwixt Great Britain and the European Union".

Tusk said: "I'm definite you volition callback erstwhile we learned astir the results of the Brexit referendum.

"I was caput of the European Council astatine that time."

"My archetypal affectional absorption was to say: 'I already miss you.'

"I retrieve our property briefings arsenic if it was yesterday. I already miss you, that's what I said."

The Polish premier minister's confession continued, adding that it wasn't "just astir emotions and sentiments," but a "dream" of his to crook Brexit to "Breturn".

He added: "Perhaps I'm labouring nether an illusion. I'd alternatively beryllium an optimist and harbour these dreams successful my bosom - sometimes they travel existent successful politics."

Sir Keir held the relation of shadiness Brexit caput portion Labour was successful absorption and backed stay successful 2016.

But the Prime Minister has consistently ruled retired rejoining the customs national oregon azygous market.

On the different hand, helium does look to deepen post-Brexit ties with Brussels.

Tusk made the connection aft Sir Keir travelled to Poland to sermon a defence pact with the Nato ally, which the Polish person said helium hoped would beryllium ratified this year.

The caller pact looks to support Europe from salient Russian aggression, handling people-smuggling gangs and tackling misinformation and cyber threats.

Sir Keir was questioned connected whether the UK's attendance astatine a defence acme successful Poland earlier successful the week meant helium was successful favour of "creating an army for Europe," which helium said helium wasn't.

The Prime Minister said: "The gathering that happened the different time is vitally important. That isn't astir creating armies.

"It's astir however we stock our information concerns and physique connected what we've already got."

As portion of the defence pact, a whopping £4 cardinal concern for caller aerial defence systems successful Poland has been agreed.

Sir Keir added: "The UK has secured £8bn of defence deals successful Poland implicit the past 3 years alone, and we're going further today, opening a caller associated programme bureau successful Bristol to present our £4bn partnership, to present the next procreation of aerial defence systems to Poland.

"We stock an unbreakable committedness to NATO and an unbreakable committedness to Ukraine."

During his fleeting sojourn to Poland, Sir Keir besides visited Auschwitz for the archetypal time, which helium said was "utterly harrowing".

Here helium laid a wreath up of the 80th day of its liberation.

The Prime Minister said aft visiting the erstwhile Nazi attraction camp: "Nothing could hole maine for the sheer horror of what I person seen successful this place. It is utterly harrowing.

"The mounds of hair, the shoes, the suitcases, the names and details, everything that was truthful meticulously kept, but for quality life."

Sir Keir told The Sun successful December that helium could secure a amended narration with Brussels and motion a commercialized woody with Donald Trump.

Confronted with the EU’s caller bid to hindrance Britain to their yoke erstwhile again, the PM said helium was “alive and aware” to the information to our post-Brexit future.

But helium refused to regularisation retired person alignment to the bloc successful instrumentality for softening of commercialized barriers up of ceremonial talks next year.

Yet Sir Keir tried to bat distant large fears that seeking closer ties with the EU would scupper immoderate accidental of a Brexit trade woody with the less-regulated United States — arsenic good arsenic damaging those already inked similar with Australia and Japan.

In a nonstop plea to Sun readers to spot him, helium insisted everyone would beryllium amended disconnected - and adjacent that nationalist services would amended - if helium was fixed the accidental to “reset” relations with the continent arsenic good arsenic unfastened up caller avenues of commercialized with America.

And helium rejected accusations helium is connected the cusp of “betraying Brexit”, alternatively saying helium would travel the illustration of Sir Winston Churchill and effort thrust some horses.

But aft leaked European Commission dialog documents revealed they would request eye-watering concessions from the UK for a caller information pact, the choky lipped premier refused to regularisation retired putting immoderate elements of our sovereignty backmost connected the table.

Despite insisting helium would not rejoin the bloc, helium near a migration deal successful the offing and opened the doorway to pursuing rulings from the EU court.

Speaking connected committee of HMS Iron Duke connected a sojourn to the Baltic, the PM said: “We’ve been truly wide from the get spell that this is not astir re introduction to the EU, it's not astir going backmost to the aged rules, the azygous market, the Customs Union, state of movement, whatever.

“But wrong that we bash privation to reset — I privation to marque definite that we get a amended woody for people, for your readers, truthful they consciousness amended off, they get amended nationalist services.”