Ukraine<\/a>, as the government seeks to shore up support for Kyiv and deepen defence ties with the bloc.<\/p>\nThe loan, recently approved by the EU after Viktor Orban\u2019s defeat in Hungarian elections ended a long-running impasse, is set to cover two-thirds of Ukraine’s needs for the next two years.<\/p>\n
Most of it is earmarked for military \u2060spending, officials said.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir said the benefit of joining the loan for Ukraine \u201coutweighs the cost\u201d as he argued the continent must \u201cmove at pace\u201d to bolster its own defence.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister used the trip to continue his push for a tighter relationship with the bloc on security, the economy and to make the case for his reset with Brussels to UK voters ahead of local elections on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Daily Express Give Us A Proper Brexit crusade has called for Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, slash red tape for businesses and enforce a 12-mile exclusion zone around the UK for British vessels only.<\/p>\n
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch warned of a \u201ctoxic combination\u201d of the EU reset and the rise of Ed Miliband risking the \u201caccelerating deindustrialisation of Britain\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Energy Secretary is said to expect to be rewarded with a job as chancellor should Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham succeed Sir Keir as Labour leader.<\/p>\n
She told how Labour wants to pull the UK back into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, which would \u201chand control of key economic sectors and competitiveness back to Brussels\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mrs Badenoch said: \u201cBritain is rapidly deindustrialising and things are getting worse under this Labour Government.<\/p>\n
\u201cSky-high energy bills and an aggressively anti-business approach from the Treasury and Energy Department are making life unbearable for many of our energy-intensive industries. Britain lost a third of its refining capacity just last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow there\u2019s the prospect of the chief deindustrialiser Ed Miliband entering No11, as well as even higher energy bills thanks to Starmer\u2019s worst of both worlds approach to Brussels. This is a toxic combination for British industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a plan to bring down energy bills for everyone \u2013 businesses and households. Our cheap power plan will get Britain drilling our own oil and gas, scrap the EU\u2019s carbon taxes on business and take Miliband\u2019s green levies off bills. This would be good for our energy security, our financial security and our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer and EU Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen (Image: Getty) Britain comes out of Sir Keir…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,37449,5322,748,217514,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,16,25847,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-937979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-negotiations","10":"tag-brexit-news","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-british-sovereignty","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-uk-eu-relations","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116518627926571135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937979","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=937979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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