{"id":88253,"date":"2025-05-09T20:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88253\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:23:09","slug":"bank-of-england-boss-andrew-bailey-sparks-fury-by-demanding-closer-eu-ties-after-donald-trump-praised-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88253\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of England boss Andrew Bailey sparks fury by demanding closer EU ties after Donald Trump praised Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BANK of England boss Andrew Bailey sparked fury yesterday by demanding closer EU ties hours after Donald Trump praised Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Bailey said leaving had damaged trade. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, speaking at a press conference.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"AP\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bank-england-governor-andrew-bailey-993039031.jpg\" data-caption=\"Bank of England boss Andrew Bailey demanded closer EU ties after Donald Trump praised Brexit\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bank-england-governor-andrew-bailey-993039031.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Bank of England boss Andrew Bailey demanded closer EU ties after Donald Trump praised BrexitCredit: AP<\/p>\n<p>But it was the clincher of PM Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/money\/34868112\/business-winners-losers-uk-us-trade-deal\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deal with the US. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Bailey also claimed that it would be \u201cbeneficial\u201d to reverse the post-Brexit reduction in UK-EU trade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/reform-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reform UK<\/a> leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/nigel-farage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigel Farage<\/a> blasted: \u201cHe should never have been appointed in the first place and should be removed. He acts against the national interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reform MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/lee-anderson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Anderson<\/a> added: \u201cWe fought hard for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/brexit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brexit<\/a>, and people like Andrew Bailey continue to undermine our independence, sovereignty and freedom by pushing for greater dependence on the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe British people do not want greater reliance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/european-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a>. They want a government that prioritises the national interest, free from foreign interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It came after Britain beat the world to be the first to carve out a deal to avoid the worst of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tv\/34825939\/trumps-tariffs-films-britain\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US President Trump\u2019s trade tariffs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump claimed it was possible only because of Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>He added that bolstering trade was \u201calways a big part of your decision on Brexit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the Bank governor, No10 yesterday insisted it was \u201cintent on securing the best possible deal for the British people, always in the national interest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The PM has been accused of \u201cbetraying Brexit by the back door\u201d as he is set to cave to demands for a new EU youth mobility scheme despite repeated promises to cut migration.<\/p>\n<p>Moment Keir Starmer &amp; Donald Trump seal UK-US trade deal in historic phone call<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANK of England boss Andrew Bailey sparked fury yesterday by demanding closer EU ties hours after Donald Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,32,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,935,520,118,16,15,42055],"class_list":{"0":"post-88253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-section-newspolitics","17":"tag-sir-keir-starmer","18":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-us-presidential-election-2024"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114479746571716227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88253","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=88253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}