{"id":34608,"date":"2025-04-20T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34608\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T03:54:11","slug":"keir-starmer-is-preparing-to-cave-and-give-the-eu-more-of-our-fish-in-return-for-a-defence-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34608\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer is preparing to cave and give the EU more of our fish in return for a defence deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

SIR Keir Starmer <\/a>is preparing to cave and give the EU more of our fish in return for a defence deal.<\/p>\n

But furious critics warned the PM<\/a> would be \u201cbetraying\u201d Brexit<\/a> if he sacrificed British fisherman to the bloc.<\/p>\n

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Britain’s fish are back on the table in talks with EuropeCredit: Getty Images – Getty<\/p>\n

The UK and EU <\/a>are holding a landmark summit next month to discuss a new security pact to combat Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n

But France is threatening to block Britain joining unless we agree to hand over new quotas of fish to the EU.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sun on Sunday understands the \u201clikely direction of travel\u201d is that Britain will do a fish deal in return for UK defence firms getting access to EU weapons contracts.<\/p>\n

An insider said if the choice is between a small industry like fish and a big industry like defence the government \u201cshould pick the big industry\u201d.<\/p>\n

Brexiteer<\/a> Jacob Rees-Mogg said: \u201cThe EU <\/a>ought to stop carping and pay us for defence while the government must not flounder by betraying our fisherman again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow Tory Brexiteer <\/a>Steve Baker<\/a> said: \u201cThis is yet another lose lose from Labour, with the EU taking on both counts<\/p>\n

\u201cOur defence capacity is a substantial prize for Europe,<\/a> so we wouldn\u2019t be giving up fish for them to take it.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurther concessions on fish are a fundamental betrayal of our departure from the EU.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Under the current deal, the EU<\/a> gets a quarter of the fish caught in UK waters.<\/p>\n

But that agreement is due to come to an end next year.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> wants a new deal so Europe gets its hands on our fish for years to come.<\/p>\n

Downing Street declined to comment.<\/p>\n

The Sun’s Alex West presses Jacob Rees-Mogg as he arrives at his election count<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIR Keir Starmer is preparing to cave and give the EU more of our fish in return for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[802,11330,527,393,2000,299,5187,1699,36,528,257,935,520],"class_list":{"0":"post-34608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brussels","10":"tag-conservative-party","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-labour-party","18":"tag-london","19":"tag-section-newspolitics","20":"tag-sir-keir-starmer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34608","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=34608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}