{"id":54885,"date":"2025-04-27T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54885\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:45:08","slug":"poll-can-labour-be-trusted-with-brexit-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54885\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Can Labour be trusted with Brexit? | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was accused of \u201cnot being trusted with Brexit<\/a>\u201d after he welcomed President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen to Downing Street on Thursday, calling her \u201cmy friend\u201d. Sir Keir<\/a> said he is \u201creally pleased\u201d that the UK has made progress to \u201creset\u201d its relationship with the EU. <\/a><\/p>\n

The two are working on plans for \u201ca partnership\u201d on energy policy and a new defence pact. The prime minister said: \u201cI\u2019m really pleased that we\u2019ve committed to a reset of our relationship, a really important relationship, which I think will be of huge benefit to both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sir Keir also came under fire after it was revealed Britain was close to an agreement on a new \u201cyouth mobility scheme\u201d with the EU. The German ambassador to the UK said he is \u201creally optimistic\u201d about the prospects of a youth mobility scheme deal being reached. However, shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith accused the Government of bringing back freedom of movement \u201cby stealth\u201d. \u201cThey may call it a youth mobility scheme, but if nobody ever gets removed at the end of their time here, then it’s immigration by another name,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

So what do you think? Vote in our poll and join the debate in the comments section. Can’t see the poll below? Click here <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice<\/a> said a youth mobility scheme would be a \u201cbackdoor to free movement of people from the EU\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThis is not a government that can be trusted on Brexit<\/a>. We cannot forget that this cabinet actively opposed Brexit<\/a> and, in the case of Keir Starmer<\/a>, actively campaigned to overturn the democratic decision of more than 17 million people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking at a London energy summit last week, Sir Keir pledged to work more closely with the EU on energy. He said: \u201cThis is the moment to act. And it is the moment to build a partnership with the EU that meets the needs of our time, facing up to the global shocks of recent years and working together to minimise the impact on hard-working people.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re doing more with the EU to improve our interconnections and make the most of our shared energy systems as well as building on the fantastic partnerships that we already have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following this, Ursula von der Leyen has suggested talks with Sir Keir could \u201cpave the way\u201d to the UK joining a European security programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was accused of \u201cnot being trusted with Brexit\u201d after he welcomed President of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,748,2000,7335,299,5187,1699,4884,807,8414,528,16,25847,15,1220,25849],"class_list":{"0":"post-54885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu-commission","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-keir-starmer","18":"tag-labour","19":"tag-labour-party","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-uk-eu-relations","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","24":"tag-youth-mobility-scheme"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114410233767819994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54885","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=54885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}