{"id":34947,"date":"2025-04-20T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34947\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T06:51:07","slug":"brexit-betrayal-as-keir-starmer-gives-in-to-eu-pressure-on-uk-fish-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34947\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit betrayal as Keir Starmer gives in to ‘EU pressure’ on UK fish | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> is facing fury from Brexiteers over reports he is set to cave in to the EU in a fishing row. The Prime Minister will reportedly give Brussels more of the UK’s fish in return for a defence deal.<\/p>\n

The Sun reported that the \u201clikely direction of travel\u201d is that Britain will do a deal on fish in return for UK defence firms getting access to EU weapons contracts. An insider told the newspaper that 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 Jacob Rees-Mogg said: \u201cThe EU ought to stop carping and pay us for defence while the government must not flounder by betraying our fisherman again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow Brexiteer Steve Baker 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, 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<\/p>\n

Sir Keir has been aiming to strike a defence pact with the bloc as part of his wider Brexit<\/a> reset<\/p>\n

But French President Emmanuel Macron had been demanding that it is linked to fishing rights.<\/p>\n

The current fishing arrangements under the post-Brexit<\/a> trade deal are due to expire in June next year.<\/p>\n

It comes after the EU’s foreign policy chief last month suggested talks over fishing should not block a security deal.<\/p>\n

Former Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas said: “I’m actually surprised at how important the fish are, considering the security situation”.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa in February insisted the two areas “cannot be put on the same level”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer is facing fury from Brexiteers over reports he is set to cave in to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,16514,5322,748,2993,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-34947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-fishing","10":"tag-brexit-news","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-defence","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34947","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=34947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}