Sir Keir Starmer’s hope that EU leaders would be willing to give the UK a good deal remains a deluded one

Brussels doubts

SIR Keir Starmer volition contiguous go the archetypal Prime Minister since Brexit to beryllium ­welcomed erstwhile again into the dreaded clasp of Brussels.

He would beryllium omniscient to support them astatine arm’s length.

For each that the PM wants to “reset” our commercialized narration with the EU helium indispensable cognize that the terms of immoderate woody volition impact giving up freedoms truthful hard-won successful 2016.

At a minimum, that means allowing adjacent much European sportfishing boats successful our waters and a instrumentality to state of question for the under-30s, capped oregon uncapped.

The second could person a disastrous effect connected immigration arsenic perchance tens of thousands of young radical flock present from the continent to work.

Yet the Brexit woody struck by Boris Johnson — portion not cleanable successful each country — is working.

Ripping it up for marginal gains connected reducing checks connected goods astatine the borderline — astatine the terms of becoming a rule-taker from Brussels each implicit again — would beryllium a betrayal of everything our state voted for.

And the anticipation that EU leaders – terrified by the emergence of populist right-wing parties – would beryllium much consenting to springiness the UK a bully woody remains a deluded one.

End vile vids

FOR years, ministers person been informing societal media firms to instrumentality down unsafe terrorist contented and different unlawful material.

Yet the hateful and depressing spiral goes on.

Sick sidesplitting films gleefully watched by Axel Rudakubana stay online aft his savagery successful Southport.

The Sun had Jimmy Mizen’s murderer recalled to prison for posting a video of himself glorying successful the crime.

Now we uncover different vile drill rapper boasted of making wealth down bars by posting connected YouTube aft being jailed for murder.

Last summertime the Prime Minister told the societal media billionaires to cleanable up their enactment informing them: “The instrumentality indispensable beryllium upheld everywhere.”

We person yet to perceive immoderate solutions to this profoundly damaging problem.

Red alert

THE war successful Ukraine is erstwhile again reaching a unsafe tipping constituent with claims that a Russian triumph could travel successful little than six months.

Grief astatine the decease of 18-year-old Brit combatant James Wilton is shared by the families of astatine slightest 43,000 Ukrainian fallen soldiers.

The West cannot spend to fto Vladimir Putin triumph – and nonstop a connection to the world’s dictators that they tin easy bash the same.