{"id":905445,"date":"2026-04-19T21:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/905445\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:19:15","slug":"new-brexit-betrayal-as-keir-starmer-could-force-uk-to-follow-eu-rules-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/905445\/","title":{"rendered":"New Brexit betrayal as Keir Starmer could force UK to follow EU rules | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly mulling a Brexit<\/a>-betrayal deal which would commit the UK to aligning with the European Union<\/a>‘s single market rules on goods. Government officials are said to be exploring this as an option under a wider examination of potential new ways of the UK further harmonising with Brussels’ rules.<\/p>\n

Doing so would help lower bureaucratic barriers to trade<\/a> between Britain and the bloc. Brexit<\/a> Minister, Nick Thomas-Symonds, told a conference on Thursday that when it is in the UK’s national interest, the Government will look to further align with the EU.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph<\/a> also reports that Mr Thomas-Symonds defended Sir Keir’s Brexit reset, arguing aligning with the European Union<\/a> is a “patriotic decision”.<\/p>\n

Mirroring EU rules on goods would see manufacturers in the UK forced to comply with hundreds of regulations on areas including health and safety.<\/p>\n

Former Brexit minister, Lord Frost, toldthe newspaper that Sir Keir’s EU reset would be reversed if a Brexit-supporting government were to take over after the next general election, which is due in 2029.<\/p>\n

The Government has insisted that making it easier to implement deals with Brussels by following EU rules could support jobs and slash red tape.<\/p>\n

As part of the Prime Minister\u2019s reset with Brussels, the Government will look to pass a new law allowing single market rules to be adopted through secondary legislation.<\/p>\n

It means MPs might not necessarily have a vote on each piece of red tape under plans due to be unveiled in the King\u2019s Speech on May 13.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir’s UK-EU reset legislation will still be subject to full scrutiny by MPs and peers under the usual parliamentary process.<\/p>\n

The UK and EU are already aiming to finalise negotiations on a youth mobility scheme in time for a joint summit this summer.<\/p>\n

It also wants to secure a common sanitary and phytosanitary area, applying to the movement of plants and food, and agree a way of linking their emissions trading systems.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Sir Keir said Britain’s response to the war in Iran would mean a closer economic relationship<\/a> with the UK’s European allies “because Brexit did deep damage to the economy”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly mulling a Brexit-betrayal deal which would commit the UK to aligning with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,42553,5322,43523,107548,201116,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,3058,807,16,15],"class_list":["post-905445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brexit","tag-brexit","tag-brexit-latest","tag-brexit-news","tag-brexit-reset","tag-brexit-trade-deal","tag-brexit-update","tag-britain","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-great-britain","tag-international-trade","tag-keir-starmer","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116433464017242405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905445","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=905445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}