{"id":29005,"date":"2025-04-18T01:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T01:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29005\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T01:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T01:41:16","slug":"keir-starmers-brexit-betrayal-risks-torpedoing-trump-trade-deal-warns-farage-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29005\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer’s Brexit ‘betrayal’ risks torpedoing Trump trade deal warns Farage | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s willingness to sign a deal which would see Britain adopt European Union<\/a> food and veterinary standards could kill off hopes of a trade pact with Donald Trump<\/a>‘s United States and hand control back to Brussels, critics including Refom UK leader Nigel Farage<\/a> and former Brexit<\/a> negotiator Lord David Frost have warned. The plan, set to be unveiled at a UK-EU summit next month, would place Britain into \u201cdynamic alignment\u201d with Brussels on food safety rules, consequently removing the need for border checks on agricultural products and easing post-Brexit<\/a> trade friction, particularly in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

However, critics fear the proposals risk putting the UK on a collision course with Washington, with critics claiming it would shut out American agricultural products and fatally undermine future talks on a US-UK free trade agreement. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage<\/a> likewise believes the plan will sabotage Britain\u2019s economic future. He told The Telegraph<\/a>: \u201cIf we are going to align with the European Union<\/a> on food standards and veterinary standards, then we\u2019re going to make life for America very difficult, maybe impossible.<\/p>\n

“It is a very, very silly thing to do in a world that is fast-changing. Long term, financially, America is a much bigger goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lord Frost said the plan would make it harder to strike deals with non-EU powers \u2013 especially the US.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe would be selling away our ability to set our rules for no real benefit, and meanwhile, making it more difficult to do FTAs with the countries that we don\u2019t have them with \u2013 notably America. It just makes no sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel said: \u201cThe Government should be prioritising securing a trade deal with one of the world\u2019s largest economies, not cosying up with Brussels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics have accused Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> of orchestrating a “great Brexit<\/a> betrayal” with his EU reset strategy. Former International Trade Secretary Sir Liam Fox, writing in the Daily Express on Monday, said: “Labour has managed to diminish our energy security, promised to wreck our green belt and now has embarked on the great Brexit<\/a> betrayal, bringing us back within the grasp of EU law over which we have no control”.<\/p>\n

The warnings come just one day after US Vice-President JD Vance said there was a \u201cgood chance\u201d of securing a trade deal with the UK, hailing the transatlantic relationship as \u201cimportant\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, any such deal could be dead in the water if the UK is seen to have locked itself into EU regulations.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump<\/a> has made little secret of his hostility to the bloc, branding it a \u201cfoe\u201d on trade and accusing the bloc of having \u201craped and pillaged\u201d the US economy.<\/p>\n

On his self-declared \u201cliberation day\u201d on April 2, the billionaire imposed 20% tariffs on EU imports \u2013 twice the level applied to UK goods. The announcement sparked a global sell-off and a fall in US bond prices.<\/p>\n

Trade talks between Brussels and Washington have made little progress, with American officials believing the tariff level could rise even further.<\/p>\n

Sources close to Mr Trump have stressed he expects Britain to pick a side \u2013 and will not put up with a dual-track approach.<\/p>\n

The deal, which has not been denied by British officials, is understood to have been in the works for at least two months as part of Sir Keir\u2019s attempt to \u201creset\u201d relations with Brussels.<\/p>\n

A Government spokesperson said: “Growth is a priority as part of our Plan for Change, delivering good British jobs and more pounds in people’s pockets.”<\/p>\n

“Reducing trade barriers for our businesses is vitally important to that, which is why we are seeking better trading relations with partners across the world – getting a better deal with the EU to see cheaper food and drink on people’s tables, alongside a new economic deal with the US.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s willingness to sign a deal which would see Britain adopt European Union food and veterinary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,9724,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,2916,1219,16,17406,15,17407],"class_list":{"0":"post-29005","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-donald-trump-trade-war","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-trade-deals","18":"tag-trade-war","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-uk-eu-food-standards","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-us-uk-trade-agreement"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114356426127213655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29005","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=29005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}