{"id":113102,"date":"2025-05-19T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113102\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:16:08","slug":"uk-eu-summit-unionists-size-up-possible-new-brexit-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113102\/","title":{"rendered":"UK-EU summit: Unionists size up possible new Brexit deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it will take some time to negotiate and may come at a high price, as the UK may have to align with some EU regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That, say opponents, would mean the UK becoming a rule taker from Brussels once more in what would be a Brexit betrayal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the tightest of tightropes for Sir Keir Starmer and his government to negotiate, coming at a time when a resurgent Reform party will now be targeting Labour seats in leave-voting constituencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it also presents a big challenge for unionists who want the Irish sea border completely dismantled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">How do they strike the balance between welcoming a deal that begins to eradicate the border while at the same time undermining the Brexit they championed?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do they adopt a purist or pragmatic approach?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But it will take some time to negotiate and may come at a high price, as the UK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-113102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114531859487456871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}