To the Commons, where just after midday Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivered a statement on his brand new UK-EU deal. Sir Keir told MPs that the new agreement would \u2018strengthen our borders\u2019 and \u2018release us from the tired arguments of the past\u2019 on Brexit. But as opposition politicians heckled \u2013 \u2018tell that to the fishermen!\u2019 one yelled \u2013 there was one notable absence in the Chamber. The Brexit kingpin himself, Reform UK\u2019s very own Nigel Farage, was nowhere to be seen. How very strange\u2026<\/p>\n
One would think that this was a moment Farage would not want to miss \u2013 given Starmer\u2019s deal has given rise to accusations that the Labour PM is \u2018betraying\u2019 Brexit less than a year into his premiership. Already, Sir Keir\u2019s deal \u2013 which includes a controversial youth migrant scheme and makes concessions to the EU over fishing rights \u2013 has been torn apart by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, who slammed it as a \u2018stitch up\u2019, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey bemoaning the fact the deal didn\u2019t go further and the SNP\u2019s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn calling Starmer\u2019s EU market access claims \u2018simply absurd\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the Commons, where just after midday Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivered a statement on his brand new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109767,"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-129181","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\/114565322271383744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129181","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=129181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}