Not content with surrendering fishing rights and spending £570m reintroducing the Erasmus scheme, Sir Keir Starmer now wants to move Britain even closer to the EU by aligning with single-market rules on food standards and carbon emissions. Not only that, but he also wants to do so using so-called “Henry VIII powers”, secondary legislation which could be approved without a Parliamentary vote.
On today’s Daily T podcast, Camilla Tominey is joined by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, who cannot understand why the UK would want to return to the more heavily regulated world of Brussels when the country has benefited from the flexibility of not being in the bloc.
And as European leaders celebrate the unseating of prime minister Viktor Orban in Hungary, Camilla and Sir Jacob weigh in on what the election of Péter Magyar could mean for Europe.
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Elsewhere, they discuss the findings of the Southport inquiry, with Axel Rudakubana’s parents blamed for not doing “what they morally ought to have done” by allowing his alarming behaviour to go unreported. Sir Jacob says that, while the parents must take responsibility, authorities and bodies are “always looking for somebody else to blame”.
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