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…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”