{"id":608270,"date":"2025-12-02T22:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608270\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:19:15","slug":"keir-starmer-launches-fresh-brexit-attack-in-bid-to-tackle-reform-uk-threat-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608270\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer launches fresh Brexit attack in bid to tackle Reform UK threat | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> has launched a fresh attack on Brexit as Labour attempts to tackle the threat of Reform UK. The Prime Minister used a speech in the City of London to take aim at Britain’s departure from the EU.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the annual Lady Mayor\u2019s Banquet, Sir Keir said that the UK must “confront the reality” that the Brexit<\/a> deal “significantly hurt our economy”. He said: “Let me be crystal clear, there is no credible economic vision for Britain that does not position us as an open, trading economy.<\/p>\n

“So we must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal we have significantly hurt our economy and so for economic renewal, we have to keep reducing frictions.<\/p>\n

“We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU, and we have to be grown up about that, to accept that this will require trade-offs.<\/p>\n

“That applies to our trading relations right across the world, and as you’ve seen already with this Government, there are deals to be done if you’re committed to building relationships.<\/p>\n

“That’s what we’ve done with the US, it’s what we’ve done with India, and it’s what we’ve done with the EU and we will keep going.<\/p>\n

“We will continue to reject drift, to confront reality and take control of our future.”<\/p>\n

It is Sir Keir’s latest attack on Brexit after Rachel Reeves<\/a> sought to partly blame the EU departure on her tax-hiking Budget.<\/p>\n

But Mr Farage has warned Labour not to point the finger at Brexit for Britain’s economic woes.<\/p>\n

Writing in the Daily Express, the Clacton MP said: \u201cAccording to Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> the real blame for our economic disaster lies with the 17.4million British people who dared to vote for Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum.<\/p>\n

\u201cFew will be fooled by Starmer\u2019s transparent attempt to shift the spotlight away from his Chancellor and her disastrous Budget.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Farage added that only his party \u201ccan be trusted to fix broken Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will cut public spending, slash red tape, remove EU rules and be on the side of the small businesses and working people who make up alarm clock Britain.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will also finally make good on the promise on Brexit, by taking back control of Britain\u2019s borders, laws and money.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we will never try to blame British voters for the problems created by the establishment\u2019s own failures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer has launched a fresh attack on Brexit as Labour attempts to tackle the threat of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,384,386,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-608270","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-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-nigel-farage","18":"tag-reform-uk","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115652300907021572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608270","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=608270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}