{"id":90283,"date":"2025-05-10T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90283\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:40:11","slug":"uk-hopes-pragmatic-approach-will-yield-ambitious-eu-deal-starmer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90283\/","title":{"rendered":"UK hopes \u2018pragmatic\u2019 approach will yield \u2018ambitious\u2019 EU deal, Starmer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A \u201cpragmatic\u201d approach to talks on food standards, youth mobility and European courts could yield an \u201cambitious\u201d post-Brexit deal between the EU and UK, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in an interview published on Saturday by The Guardian newspaper.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">London and Brussels are hopeful of signing a deal at the first UK-EU summit since Brexit, which will take place in the British capital on May 19.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">However, Labour\u2019s drubbing by the anti-EU Reform UK party in recent local elections and critical reaction to a trade deal agreed this week with India could lead London to take a more cautious approach, The Guardian reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Despite the potential for domestic criticism, Starmer suggested to the paper that the UK was prepared to align with the EU on food standards as part of the deal, saying: \u201cWe do not want to lower our standards on food.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reform UK Party Leader Nigel Farage arrives for a service at Westminster Abbey in London on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8d12963a-3d82-46a0-936f-e28911f325fb_22af83ab.jpg\" title=\"Reform UK Party Leader Nigel Farage arrives for a service at Westminster Abbey in London on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE\"\/>Reform UK Party Leader Nigel Farage arrives for a service at Westminster Abbey in London on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI think that British people are proud of the high standards that we have, and we want to maintain those standards,\u201d he said, adding the government would take a \u201cserious, pragmatic\u201d approach to talks.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Significantly, he accepted that the European Court of Justice would be involved in resolving disputes, pointing out that it already has a role as part of the existing agreement that deals with Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cpragmatic\u201d approach to talks on food standards, youth mobility and European courts could yield an \u201cambitious\u201d post-Brexit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,42795,42797,2000,299,5187,14540,1699,42796,4884,40,730,807,8414,257,1144,386,13128,16,15,25849],"class_list":{"0":"post-90283","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-british-capital","11":"tag-defence-secretary-john-healey","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-court-of-justice","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-food-standards","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-immigration","20":"tag-india","21":"tag-keir-starmer","22":"tag-labour","23":"tag-london","24":"tag-northern-ireland","25":"tag-reform-uk","26":"tag-trade-deal","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-youth-mobility-scheme"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114484060111898440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90283","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=90283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}