Labour is ploughing ahead with its vaunted EU “reset” – Starmer is due to meet the 27 European Council leaders on 3rd February, the first PM to do so since Brexit. Back at home the machinery of the blob is being squarely aimed towards the continent…
Guido revealed in October that the Home Office was forming a new “Europe Hub” to forge closer ties to the bloc. Now Guido hears a massive new EU unit has set up in the all-powerful Cabinet Office. Primarily formed from staff in the FCDO’s old European Union Relations Directorate, the hub reports to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden. So far the UK’s efforts for a reset have resulted in the EU advising member states to block our access to their energy markets…
Around 60 staff are working in the unit on the third floor of the Cabinet Office. One civil servant with knowledge of the hub says it’s working towards “softening rough edges” with the EU on regulatory matters. The stagnant EU is determined to play hard ball – all while the UK pivots away from a fast-growing United States…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”