European Parliament President Roberta Metsola is in London today, February 25th, to encourage Brexit betraying Prime Minister Keir Starmer to keep it up.<\/p>\n
Writing in the Telegraph ahead of her visit, Metsola celebrated<\/a> the \u201cgood news,\u201d announced in December, that Britain is rejoining the EU\u2019s \u2018Erasmus Plus\u2019 student exchange programme. Good for Brussels, perhaps, but certainly not for the UK taxpayer<\/a>, which will have to fork out more than half a billion pounds in 2027 for this privilege\u2014almost double the annual amount Britain previously contributed.<\/p>\n The EU official then urged Starmer\u2019s administration to go \u201ceven further,\u201d pointing in particular to the alleged benefits of closer alignment on energy and food.<\/p>\n Reports earlier this year suggested the UK is already preparing to enter \u201cdynamic alignment<\/a>\u201d with the bloc in areas like these, which would allow Brussels rules to take effect automatically in Britain, without approval from MPs.<\/p>\n There has also long been talk about the likely introduction of a so-called \u201cyouth mobility scheme<\/a>,\u201d which, in effect, would amount to the return of free movement.<\/p>\n After meeting with House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Metsola stressed<\/a> that \u201cnow is the time to reset the relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom, move past the ghosts of the past decade and find ways forward together.\u201d<\/p>\n