{"id":748123,"date":"2026-02-07T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/748123\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:01:16","slug":"starmers-about-to-make-his-biggest-mistake-yet-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/748123\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer&#8217;s about to make his biggest mistake yet | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6717439.jpg\" class=\"zoomEnabled\" data-img=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/1\/1200x712\/secondary\/6717439.jpg?r=1770387207825\" alt=\"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer \" title=\"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer \" width=\"590\" height=\"394\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Labour is hellbent on reversing Brexit a decade on from the EU referendum (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Treachery, deception, and betrayal are words ineradicable from the Labour Party in general and this pitiful government in particular.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the foul stench emanating from Peter Mandelson\u2019s deeply murky past continues to hang in the air, spineless Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/keir-starmer\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keir Starmer<\/a> inches Britain ever closer towards a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/brexit\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brexit<\/a> sellout.<\/p>\n<p>This weak-kneed prime minister who, let us not forget, voted for, campaigned for, and backed remaining in the EU, has always cocked a snook at those who sought a future away from the straitjacket of the barmy army of eurocrats dictating how we should conduct our business and lead our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Sneering Starmer has always hated that 17.4 million people voted for Brexit. And he has never forgiven them.<\/p>\n<p>But he is too cowardly to call a second referendum so is taking the UK back into the arms of his brethren in Brussels by the backdoor.<\/p>\n<p>He has signed up to fortnightly Brexit reset talks, effectively flashing some ankle in the hope \u200bthe \u200bE\u200bU welcomes us back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6717455.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Keir Starmer\" title=\"Sir Keir Starmer\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Remainer Starmer wants in, not out, unlike 17.4 million Brits who voted to leave the EU, says Giles Sheldrick (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Latvian European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said the economic and political partnership of 27 countries was \u201copen-minded and ready to engage&#8221; with Starmer.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal is a customs union to stop tariffs and taxes on some or all goods moving \u200bbetween the UK and mainland Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, as we approach the 10-year anniversary of the seismic and historic vote to quit the bloc Starmer and his sidekick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/rachel-reeves\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Reeves<\/a> are gearing up to sell the country out.<\/p>\n<p>This week Chancellor Ms Reeves hosted Mr Dombrovskis with their sinister plotting leading to fears it will not be long before Britain is back operating in a single market.<\/p>\n<p>Labour is so economically impotent and bereft of ideas it doesn\u2019t have a plan that isn&#8217;t ever-closer alignment with Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The plot has always been a slow strengthening of Britain\u2019s relationship with the bloc that will eventually lead to a reworked single market where the UK is part of a unified economic area in which goods, services, capital, and people can move freely across borders.<\/p>\n<p>This so-called reset of our relationship will inevitably lead to freedom of movement. A greater act of political infidelity is hard to imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir has made no secret of his lust for ever closer alignment, saying: \u201cIf it\u2019s in our national interest\u2026 then we should consider that, we should go that far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His warped thinking is that an about-turn on Brexit will head off the threat of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/nigel-farage\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigel Farage<\/a> and Reform if it is framed as an attempt to undo some of the economic damage caused by our vote to leave in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>But the 17.4 million who voted for Brexit are not stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Like his disgraced chum Mandelson, Starmer is part of the same lofty metropolitan elite that loathes democracy, decency, and free-thinking.<\/p>\n<p>But his lurch towards realignment is surely the most misguided and ill-judged of all his many miscalculations.<\/p>\n<p>Labour is hellbent on taking Britain back to the 1970s but should think long and hard before selling us all out.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour is hellbent on reversing Brexit a decade on from the EU referendum (Image: Getty Images) Treachery, deception,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,24482,5322,748,2000,189107,299,5187,1699,4884,807,220789,384,619,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-748123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-betrayal","10":"tag-brexit-news","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-customs-union","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-labour-party-alignment","20":"tag-nigel-farage","21":"tag-rachel-reeves","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116028538297390735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748123","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=748123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}