US EditionStarmer Says Brexit Has 'Significantly Hurt' UK Economy, Calls for Closer EU Ties
Starmer attributes significant economic harm to Brexit and proposes deals to ease trade frictions with the EU, including an SPS agreement and emissions trading talks.
- On Monday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Brexit had `significantly hurt our economy` in central London and urged moving toward a closer relationship with the European Union in his Mansion House speech.
- Starmer said the country must confront Brexit's economic damage and accept trade-offs to reduce friction with the European Union for economic renewal, lowering inflation and retaining market confidence.
- He highlighted specific deals, including an SPS deal to remove border checks on plant and animal products and a trade concession reached earlier this year with the European Commission.
- Defending last week's tax-hiking Budget, Keir Starmer said he would defend it `any day of the week` and backed Chancellor Rachel Reeves, noting the Office for Budget Responsibility reported a £4.2 billion surplus.
- Days after talks broke down over UK contribution to the EU's 150 billion Security Action for Europe programme, critics warned closer deals risk returning Britain under continental regulation.
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It has been almost six years since Britain officially left the European Union. Since then, the economy has been ill. Economists have now calculated that GDP has fallen by eight percent since then. Politics has no solutions for this.
The Prime Minister of Britain called for a strengthening of London's cooperation with the EU.
The British must accept the commitments of a closer relationship with the European Union, declared the British Prime Minister of the month. In a speech in London, Keir Starmer said that Brexit "has significantly affected the economy of the United Kingdom", warning that "frequency" with the European block must be reduced to allow "economic recovery" in the British Sea, reports POLICICO.
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