{"id":98908,"date":"2025-05-13T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/98908\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:01:22","slug":"kemi-badenoch-declares-brexit-war-on-keir-starmer-as-she-pledges-to-reverse-any-row-backs-ahead-of-eu-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/98908\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch declares Brexit war on Keir Starmer as she pledges to reverse any \u2018row backs\u2019 ahead of EU reset"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has vowed to reverse any Brexit “row backs” implemented by Keir Starmer’s government, as the Prime Minister prepares for a reset in relations with the European Union.<\/p>\n

Speaking to GB News, Badenoch issued a stark warning about Labour’s negotiating capabilities.<\/p>\n

“If Keir Starmer starts rolling back on the instruction the country gave us on Brexit, we will reverse the changes he made,” she declared.<\/p>\n

The former Business Secretary expressed particular concern about potential new deals on free movement, EU payments, fishing rights and defence spending.<\/p>\n

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Kemi Badenoch has made a pledge ahead of Keir Starmer’s EU reset<\/p>\n

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“My worry is, when Labour negotiates, Britain loses,” Badenoch said, establishing what appears to be a new battle line in the ongoing Brexit debate.<\/p>\n

Her comments come as Starmer’s government faces scrutiny over its approach to EU relations and immigration policy.<\/p>\n

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Badenoch outlined specific concerns about potential Labour concessions to the EU.<\/p>\n

“If he starts new deals on free movement, we already have a huge immigration problem and we need to bring it down,” she warned.<\/p>\n

She pledged to reverse any agreements that might bring “free movement through the backdoor.”<\/p>\n

On financial matters, Badenoch was equally direct: “If he starts paying new money to the EU, we cannot afford it.<\/p>\n

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Starmer’s counterpart expressed particular concern about fishing rights.<\/p>\n

“You look at what they’re going to do on fishing. A lot of the Labour lefties think it’s a big joke and they laugh at people from fishing communities,” she said.<\/p>\n

She questioned EU intentions regarding British waters: “If they think fishing is so irrelevant, why does the EU want it so badly?”<\/p>\n

Badenoch also criticised potential UK contributions to European defence funds.<\/p>\n

Starmer recently addressed immigration concerns in a speech from Downing Street, where he promised to “take back control” of Britain’s borders.<\/p>\n

“Today this Labour government is shutting down the lab. The experiment is over,” Starmer declared, adopting language reminiscent of Brexit campaigners.<\/p>\n

He pledged that “migration will fall” without setting specific targets.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Spain’s foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares has suggested that Gibraltar’s status could be linked to broader EU negotiations.<\/p>\n

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Keir Starmer may make fishing concessions in a potential deal with the EU, it has been claimed<\/p>\n

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Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Albares said: “I think the relationship between UK and European Union, it’s a comprehensive relation, a global relation, not just a pick-and-choose relation.”<\/p>\n

Reports have also emerged that some European countries want UK concessions on fishing rights as part of any defence deal.<\/p>\n

The Government maintains that “Gibraltar will always remain part of the British family” and that it won’t compromise on sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Badenoch expressed particular concern for coastal communities where fishing is vital.<\/p>\n

“I’m very worried about those coastal communities in places like Grimsby, in the south west, where fishing is the lifeblood of those communities,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We cannot sell them down the river, pardon the pun, just because we’re trying to get another deal somewhere else.”<\/p>\n

She cited previous Labour negotiations as evidence of her concerns, referencing deals on the Chagos Islands, US tariffs, and a “lopsided” double taxation agreement with India.<\/p>\n

Badenoch has established “five tests” for Labour’s EU negotiations, emphasising that NATO must remain “at the heart of defence in the UK, in Europe in particular.”<\/p>\n

She rejected the idea of reopening Brexit debates, stating: “We want to move forwards, not backwards. We shouldn’t be having to talk about Brexit anymore – we should be talking about the opportunities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has vowed to reverse any Brexit “row backs” implemented by Keir Starmer’s government, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[802,2000,299,5187,807,1198,12,285,512,1259,3106],"class_list":{"0":"post-98908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-keir-starmer","13":"tag-kemi-badenoch","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-sgg","17":"tag-uk-news","18":"tag-uk-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114502309447767403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98908","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=98908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}