Labour<\/a> has been unpicking Brexit<\/a> for some time, not least with a limited ‘reset’ of relations aimed, for example, at smoothing cross-Channel trade in food, electricity and carbon emissions, and visits for young people.<\/p>\n Now, Starmer has gone a decisive step further, telling a news conference on Tuesday that, ‘We want to be more ambitious, closer economic cooperation, closer security cooperation, a partnership that recognises our shared values, our shared interest and our shared future, a partnership for the dangerous world that we must navigate together.’<\/p>\n It’s true that the world is ‘volatile’, but I’m in no doubt about what is really playing out \u2013\u2060 which is a coup by an anti-Brexit Establishment which has never accepted the verdict of the 2016 referendum and has been working to undermine it ever since<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m talking here about Britain’s professional classes, the well-paid, well-connected metropolitan types \u2013\u2060 lawyers, bankers, consultants, civil servants \u2013\u2060 who run much of Britain yet have more in common with Paris and Berlin<\/a> than Barnsley. They hold millions of their fellow citizens in contempt.<\/p>\n To the Euro-obsessives, the Brexit vote was a personal affront, a shocking challenge not just to their inflated self-regard but to a globalist, anti-patriotic outlook in which any form of national affiliation is an affront.<\/p>\n Starmer hasn’t yet gone so far as some Labour figures, such as London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who have demanded that we rejoin the EU wholesale<\/a>. Yet we should be under no doubt as to what ‘closer cooperation’ would mean in practice for Britain, or how disastrous it would prove.<\/p>\n Frank is talking about Britain’s professional classes, the well-paid, well-connected metropolitan types \u2013\u2060 lawyers, bankers, consultants, civil servants<\/p>\n It would mean, for example, accepting ever-greater oversight from the European Court of Justice (ECJ), a intrusive body already determined to interfere in any trade deal we try to reach, and which imposes itself across the board\u00a0\u2013\u2060 from industry to agriculture \u2013\u2060 whenever possible. Britain’s interests rarely come first.<\/p>\n It would be expensive, too. If we want smoother trading arrangements, the EU will naturally demand we pay billions of Euros in return – to help shore up its own budget, now in serious deficit.<\/p>\n We’ve already seen Brussels demand a punitive E4- E6billion-euro contribution (\u00a33.5-\u00a35.2billion) merely to take part in a scheme for EU-wide defence procurement<\/a>, despite the fact that our participation would benefit everyone concerned.<\/p>\n A closer relationship with Europe would mean thousands of young Europeans coming to live and work in Britain under a new youth mobility scheme, not to mention the thousands more arriving through the Erasmus scheme for students and young entrepreneurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m in little doubt that Europe would eventually require us to accept the wholesale free movement of EU citizens across our borders<\/a> \u2013\u2060 something that the British people comprehensively rejected in 2016.<\/p>\n![\"Frank](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/107622839-15702389-Frank_is_talking_about_Britain_s_professional_classes_the_well_p-a-1_177516435025.jpeg\")
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