1<\/p>\n Chancellor Rachel Reeves revealed she thinks the EU is a more important partner to Britain than AmericaCredit: Getty<\/p>\n As the Pound dipped<\/a> in response, Downing Street<\/a> pointedly refused to back Reeves insisting \u201cboth are of incredible importance\u201d.<\/p>\n But it was a telling insight into Labour\u2019s thinking: that when push comes to shove, their hearts remain with the EU.<\/p>\n Why else would ministers risk American ire by considering taking rules on food imports into the UK from the European Court of Justice?<\/p>\n Or gamble with immigration<\/a> by holding advance talks on an EU Youth Mobility scheme allowing under 30-year-old Europeans to come here freely \u2014 just a month after flatly denying any such plans.<\/p>\n America is the world\u2019s biggest economy.<\/p>\n A trade deal that also wiped out Trump\u2019s crippling tariffs <\/a>would transform Britain\u2019s economic fortunes.<\/p>\n So why give up the obvious advantage of Trump\u2019s love of Brexit<\/a> Britain by suggesting trade with him is inferior to the EU?<\/p>\n The Chancellor\u2019s ill-advised comments have shown the obvious dangers in her strategy of trying to ride two horses at the same time.<\/strong><\/p>\n Frack and ruin<\/p>\n BRITAIN has squandered the enormous potential power of fracking<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n We are sitting on vast quantities of shale gas<\/a> while the Government imports coal for British Steel from Japan<\/a>, gas from Norway<\/a> and electricity from France<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sir Keir Starmer insists he can balance Donald Trump and closer ties with Europe despite looming US-EU trade war<\/p>\n Fracking is a cheap, safe solution to the problem of bridging the decades until green tech works efficiently.<\/p>\n Ed Miliband<\/a> is too blinkered to do it.<\/p>\n So Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch<\/a> must make it a key plank of her future energy<\/a> policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n Old boys club<\/p>\n AS if the football<\/a> regulator wasn\u2019t a bad enough idea, now Labour has stumbled into a cronyism row over it.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Tories say they can\u2019t be sure whether party donor David Kogan will be on the side of fans \u2014 or happier teaming up with friends in Government<\/a> to do what ministers want.<\/p>\n This unnecessary row would quickly go away if Labour<\/a> saw sense and threw the entire thing on their planned bonfire of quangos.<\/p>\n![\"Rachel](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/23-25-gathers-ceos-government-989323573_dd03a3.jpg\")
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