Labour has finally revealed the size of its specialist EU Surrender Unit. Handing power back to the EU is basically the only foreign policy plank Starmer has left…
When Guido revealed the unit had been founded it was said between 50 and 60 staff – mostly from the FCDO – were working on the team. Then last year the government refused to say how many personnel made up the ‘EU Relations Secretariat’ in the Cabinet Office. Now the department reveals in answer to a written Parliamentary question: “As of February 2026, there are around 80 members of staff in the EU Relations Secretariat.“ Hire some more Navy staff instead and the government might be able to deploy a navy vessel to a conflict zone in less than six months…
EU matters are run on the Whitehall side mostly by old Blairite hands. Shudder…
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.”