{"id":657819,"date":"2025-12-27T12:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657819\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:46:19","slug":"uk-trade-unions-urge-labour-to-revisit-eu-customs-union-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657819\/","title":{"rendered":"UK trade unions urge Labour to revisit EU customs union \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. left the EU customs union after the 2016 Brexit referendum, formally exiting the bloc in January 2020 under then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Britain remained aligned with EU trade rules during a transition period before fully leaving the customs union on Jan. 1, 2021, when the EU-U.K. Trade and Cooperation Agreement took effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move restored Britain\u2019s ability to strike independent trade deals but introduced customs checks, rules-of-origin requirements and new barriers for exporters.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer has so far ruled out rejoining the customs union, framing it as a red line while promising a broader \u201creset\u201d with Brussels. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are getting a closer relationship with the EU on a number of fronts, including on trade and the economy,\u201d Starmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4a7M9-0MfhU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told MPs earlier this month<\/a>, adding: \u201cWe have clear red lines in relation to the single market and the customs union.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.K. left the EU customs union after the 2016 Brexit referendum, formally exiting the bloc in January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[5109,802,748,1193,6215,8514,6852,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,1195,807,9891,6861,1201,14373,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-657819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-boris-johnson","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-british-politics","12":"tag-cooperation","13":"tag-customs","14":"tag-customs-union","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-great-britain","20":"tag-growth","21":"tag-keir-starmer","22":"tag-referendum","23":"tag-single-market","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-transition-implementation-period","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115791605589980420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657819","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=657819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}