{"id":22769,"date":"2025-04-15T19:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22769\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:17:08","slug":"outrage-as-keir-starmer-accused-of-fresh-brexit-backsliding-with-plans-to-bow-to-eu-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22769\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as Keir Starmer accused of fresh Brexit ‘backsliding’ with plans to bow to EU judges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of turning his back on Brexit amid plans to place Britain back under the jurisdiction of European judges.<\/p>\n

An agreement on dynamic alignment is being mulled over between the UK and Brussels bloc, with Starmer set to tie the UK to the EU\u2019s standards on food and agricultural imports.<\/p>\n

Such a situation would hand powers to the European Court of Justice to look over British trade.<\/p>\n

Starmer, who served as Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s Remain-supporting Shadow Brexit Secretary, vowed not to relitigate the debate around EU membership ahead of the 2024 General Election.<\/p>\n

\"SirSir Keir Starmer with Ursula von der LeyenPA<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister ruled out rejoining the Single Market or Customs Union, moving away from his previous pledge to restore Freedom of Movement.<\/p>\n

However, speculation about buckling to Brussels on dynamic alignment prompted fury from Brexiteers.<\/p>\n

Former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost told The Sun: “It\u2019s increasingly obvious that Labour are going to sell out the country once again.<\/p>\n

“This move means that our farmers and food producers will have to live by laws they have no say in, enforced by a foreign court – the absolute opposite of what Brexit means.<\/p>\n

“We would be giving up control over a significant part of our economy and getting nothing back for it. You simply can\u2019t trust Labour to negotiate.”<\/p>\n

\"UKUK chief trade negotiator, David Frost, looks on as Prime Minister Boris Johnson signs the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement PA<\/p>\n

Ex-Brexit Opportunities Minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg also raised concerns about the ECJ scuppering a potential UK-US trade deal.<\/p>\n

Speaking during his GB News show State of the Nation, the Tory grandee said: “This move would suggest an effort from the Government to surrender our regulatory freedoms, along with our fish, to the EU, even though it could have a detrimental effect on negotiations with the US. <\/p>\n

“Any move to regulatory alignment would damage Britain\u2019s ability to negotiate trade deals with other nations that do not follow EU processes, including the United States. <\/p>\n

“Simplistically, the US has ‘outcome’ standards: Is the product safe? While the EU has ‘process’ standards, is the method of production approved? <\/p>\n

“Adjusted for differences in reporting, this leads to similar food safety standards. And this is despite the reverend Starmer\u2019s position that Britain doesn\u2019t need to pick sides between the ‘special relationships’ with both the US and EU.”<\/p>\n

Starmer was accused of establishing a \u201cSurrender Squad\u201d of civil servants at the tail-end of 2024 after a leaked document appeared to open the door to ECJ jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

It is believed that the EU is hoping that the Strasbourg court will extend its jurisdiction from just Northern Ireland to cover both carbon border taxes and veterinary deals.<\/p>\n

\"SirSir Jacob Rees-MoggPA<\/p>\n

Eurosceptics long-bemoaned the ECJ\u2019s apparent overreach, with the Vote Leave campaign highlighting how it restricted efforts to fight terrorism.<\/p>\n

Spanish company Factortame provoked particular fury after winning further access to British fishing waters following a lengthy legal battle at the Luxembourg court in 1991.<\/p>\n

The Surrender Singh judgement also ruffled British feathers after it appeared to bend migration rules.<\/p>\n

However, the UK ranked reasonably highly when it came to winning cases, with a 33 per cent success rate in cases brought against Britain between 2003 and 2016.<\/p>\n

The figure put Britain above Italy, France and Germany but behind Ireland, the Netherlands and Denmark.<\/p>\n

EU Relations Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has been negotiating with Brussels in the hope of securing a “reset” in relations.<\/p>\n

\u201cA closer, more cooperative relationship with the EU will improve the British people\u2019s security, safety and prosperity,\u201d the UK Government said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will act in Britain\u2019s national interest and we have been clear there will be no return to freedom of movement, the customs union or the single market. We will not provide a running commentary on talks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of turning his back on Brexit amid plans to place Britain back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,12,285,16,1259,3106,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-22769","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-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-uk-news","20":"tag-uk-politics","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114343591522463870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769","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=22769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}