{"id":186847,"date":"2025-06-15T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186847\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T17:05:13","slug":"keir-starmer-eyes-post-brexit-win-with-three-priorities-for-uk-and-canada-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186847\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer eyes post-Brexit win with three priorities for UK and Canada | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keir Starmer has used his first meeting with Canadian Premier Mark Carney to revive trade negotiations, after they collapsed under the last Conservative government. Meeting his Commonwealth opposite in the country\u2019s capital Ottawa, Sir Keir highlighted security, defence, trade and the economy as areas he hopes to build a closer relationship over the coming years. Securing a deal would be yet another post-Brexit<\/a> win for Britain, and Sir Keir\u2019s fourth after the United States, India and European Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking from Parliament Hill, Sir Keir told Mr Carney: \u201cThat history and joint working of our countries is phenomenal. For years, we’ve worked together as Commonwealth members, as independent, democratic sovereign countries, working alongside each other on issues of security, defence, trade, the economy, you name it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think alike, we work alike, and I think that’s not just a reflection on the past. I think it is very much needed in the here and now and how I think we can forge our future together as we go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Carney called for Britain to improve cooperation on areas such as AI, critical minerals and defence in order to boost prosperity for both countries.<\/p>\n

Trade talks between the UK and Canada dramatically broke down in January 2024 under Rishi Sunak<\/a>, largely over the issue of cheese quotas.<\/p>\n

Former Canadian premier Justin Trudeau promised his farmers that he would restrict the amount of foreign cheese being sold on shelves in order to boost the industry.<\/p>\n

The UK already has an existing trade deal with Canada after joining the CPTPP group of countries last year, granting British traders easier access to 11 economies across the globe.<\/p>\n

However official government impact assessments suggested that despite the negotiating win, Britain\u2019s membership would add just \u00a32 billion to the country\u2019s GDP in the long-run.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister\u2019s spokesman said trade would form a \u201cbig part\u201d of today\u2019s formal meeting between the two leaders, and pointed to a number of Canadian firms already investing hundreds of millions in Britain.<\/p>\n

These include London electric bus company Zenobe, which has recently struck a \u00a3600 million deal with the Canadian city of Brampton to electrify their bus fleet, creating hundreds of new jobs across England, Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> has also risked a diplomatic incident with Donald Trump<\/a> after he emphatically slapped down the President\u2019s threats to annex Canada as America\u2019s \u201851st state\u2019.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his jet to the country for the G7, Sir Keir pointedly described Canada as an \u201cindependent sovereign nation\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cCanada and the US are our allies. Canada is an independent, sovereign nation, and quite right, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the basis on which I\u2019ve approached my discussions with all of our partners. I\u2019m not going to get into the precise conversations I\u2019ve had, but let me be absolutely clear: Canada is an independent, sovereign country and a much-valued member of the Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we work closely with Canada on any number of issues, whether that is defence and security \u2013 particularly the training in Ukraine<\/a>, it\u2019s been something where Canada and the U.K. have worked very closely together.<\/p>\n

Mark Carney will meet President Trump today in what will be an explosive first visit by the President to Canada since he began making his demands about the country joining America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer has used his first meeting with Canadian Premier Mark Carney to revive trade negotiations, after they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,2129,74018,2916,16,76573,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-186847","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-keir-starmer","16":"tag-mark-carney","17":"tag-post-brexit-relations","18":"tag-trade-deals","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-uk-canada-trade-negotiations","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114688473464737258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186847","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=186847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}