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Keir Starmer seems to have forgotten Brexit. (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n
Sir Keir Starmer has an ever more faraway look these days. Not the thousand-yard stare of a man who has seen a little too much in his life, but rather the besotted, moony gaze of someone pining for a lost love<\/a>.<\/p>\n It is all to our detriment that love resides across the Channel in the gilded halls of Brussels. Over the weekend, hidden under the horrid torrent of misery fountaining out of Iran, reports emerged that our Prime Minister \u2013 the man who once campaigned for a second referendum to overturn the first one<\/a> \u2013 signed us all up to something called the “dynamic alignment”. I imagined at first this was some sort of spine-tingling procedure you ask a chiropractor for, but instead it turns out it’s intended to “free British food and farming businesses from the mountains of paperwork”<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now that sounds to me to be a claim only marginally less credible than a used-car salesman announcing he wants to save you money.<\/p>\n What dynamic alignment actually means (Brussels types do love their jargon) is that Britain will automatically update its laws to match whatever the European Union<\/a> decides. With no vote in Parliament, and no say from Whitehall.<\/p>\n Of course, the European Court of Justice will oversee things. British farmers and food producers answering to foreign judges. Just like old times, I suppose?<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong> ‘People voted Brexit out of pride in nation \u2013 not racism’ <\/a><\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong> Thatcher minister compares Starmer’s EU obsession to coercive abuse relationship <\/a><\/p>\n A total of 17.4million people voted to leave. While Sir Keir was not among them, it perhaps should not be all that much of a stretch to ask if he might respect that outcome<\/a>?<\/p>\n The arithmetic makes matters worse, with just 8% of British businesses exporting to the EU. Meanwhile, 14% flog their wares to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n So we are surrendering sovereignty \u2013 that word again \u2013 to accommodate the smaller constituency while potentially kneecapping the larger one.<\/p>\n Get the latest politics news straight to your phone <\/strong> Join us on WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. Read our Privacy Policy<\/a><\/p>\n But then this was always Sir Keir’s difficulty. Our Prime Minister never wanted Brexit<\/a> in the first place, presumably thinking that faster passport queues in French airports was a decent trade-off for allowing Brussels to write our laws.<\/p>\n Sir Keir campaigned to Remain with the fervour of a convert and then pushed for a people’s vote (dreadful phrase) when the people had already voted. Now here he is in Downing Street, scuttling back to the embrace of the EU<\/a> like a prodigal son who never really left home.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, we cannot even dispatch a ship<\/a> to protect our own RAF bases in Cyprus without waiting a good few weeks. Energy bills are flying through the roof, and taxes are out of control, while a greedy Treasury looks to the nation’s farms to rake in a bit of extra cash.<\/p>\n