{"id":132162,"date":"2025-05-26T02:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/132162\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T02:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:48:27","slug":"starmer-bets-sell-out-on-fish-wont-spook-brits-weary-of-brexit-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/132162\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer bets \u2018sell-out\u2019 on fish won\u2019t spook Brits weary of Brexit \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London offered up four. And in the end, they settled on 12.<\/p>\n<p>The giveaway, pounced on by critics, is a political gamble for Starmer, who appears to be trading a hit to a relatively small by symbolic part of the U.K. economy for wins elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The decision immediately gave euroskeptics like Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage and embattled Tory chief Kemi Badenoch a clear line of attack. <\/p>\n<p>Farage declared the agreement &#8220;the end of the fishing industry&#8221; while Badenoch branded it a &#8220;sell-out.&#8221; Euroskeptic parts of the British press are already following their lead, and even Johnson himself re-emerged to rubbish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/boris-johnson-starmer-the-manacled-gimp-of-brussels-after-one-sided-eu-trade-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it in colorful terms.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While downplaying the idea that fishing communities will be severely hit, and offering up both some fresh investment and an easing of food checks as a sweetener, Starmer is hoping his wins in other policy areas will catch Brits&#8217; attention.<\/p>\n<p>In getting the green light for a sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement and re-entry into the internal electricity market, the U.K. has effectively been allowed to break one of Brussels&#8217; cardinal Brexit rules: no &#8220;cherry-picking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London offered up four. And in the end, they settled on 12. The giveaway, pounced on by critics,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[5109,802,748,473,1312,2000,299,5187,1699,21604,4884,806,1197,2122,807,1198,2441,2452,5733,809,384,46,48,6861,58218,16,15,22710,6863,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-132162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-boris-johnson","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-electricity","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-euroskeptics","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-industry","20":"tag-investment","21":"tag-japan","22":"tag-keir-starmer","23":"tag-kemi-badenoch","24":"tag-markets","25":"tag-media","26":"tag-mobility","27":"tag-negotiations","28":"tag-nigel-farage","29":"tag-policy","30":"tag-rights","31":"tag-single-market","32":"tag-sweeteners","33":"tag-uk","34":"tag-united-kingdom","35":"tag-uruguay","36":"tag-visas","37":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114571857564571403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132162","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=132162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}