{"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":"

London offered up four. And in the end, they settled on 12.<\/p>\n

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

The decision immediately gave euroskeptics like Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage and embattled Tory chief Kemi Badenoch a clear line of attack. <\/p>\n

Farage declared the agreement “the end of the fishing industry” while Badenoch branded it a “sell-out.” Euroskeptic parts of the British press are already following their lead, and even Johnson himself re-emerged to rubbish it in colorful terms.<\/a><\/p>\n

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’ attention.<\/p>\n

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’ cardinal Brexit rules: no “cherry-picking.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London offered up four. And in the end, they settled on 12. The giveaway, pounced on by critics,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"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":["post-132162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brexit","tag-boris-johnson","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-defense","tag-electricity","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-euroskeptics","tag-great-britain","tag-industry","tag-investment","tag-japan","tag-keir-starmer","tag-kemi-badenoch","tag-markets","tag-media","tag-mobility","tag-negotiations","tag-nigel-farage","tag-policy","tag-rights","tag-single-market","tag-sweeteners","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-uruguay","tag-visas","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}]}}