The Labour Movement for Europe of MPs, chaired by Stella Creasy, is celebrating the deal today. In an email to supporters Creasy asks for donations to “help us keep fighting to reset our relationship with Europe”…
Tellingly the movement declares: “this deal is a first step, but it is the beginning – not the end – of the fight for a better relationship and a better future standing together with Europe.” The vague agreements leave room for many more giveaways…
In the meantime supporters are instructed to propagandise: “we need you to speak up for this deal – to your friends, on social media, and to your MP.” Some other Labour MPs in leave-voting areas are well aware of how the sellout will go down with their constituents…
Read the full email below:
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Starmer’s surrender deal has triggered the bat signal for all Brexiters. Starmer has seriously underestimated the level of fury at his sellout…
One Vote Leave veteran tells Guido:
“This is Chequers, it’s signed up to rule taking with no say. EU control over our laws, ECJ control over a huge spread of our national life, no guarantee that all the checks will go, no say (the feed in rights state: “These rights would not extend to participation in the work of the Council or its preparatory bodies”) and we have to pay them for the privilege: (“The SPS Agreement should provide for an appropriate financial contribution from the United Kingdom to support the relevant costs associated with the European Union’s work in this policy area”). This deal will result in us paying more money to the EU, loss of control of laws with a Potemkin “feed in” that means nothing, no change to relationship with NI and no guarantee that border checks will go.”
In short, a total disaster. The clans are stirring, Guido was ahead of the curve warning that this sellout was coming…
Keir Starmer is in Lancaster House with senior EU leaders to sign off on the EU surrender deal. He said:
“This is the first UK EU summit and it marks a new era in our relationship. It’s really good that we’re able to meet around this table for this summit, the first of what will be of many summits as we progress through this new era. We on this side are following through on what the British public voted for last year. We will do that by strengthening our relationships with allies around the world including of course with Europe. Today is all about moving on from stale old debates, looking forward not backwards focusing on what we can do together to deliver in the national interest.”
EU officials popping the champagne corks…
The main points in the sell out deal are:
A lot of the deal is an agreement to hold more discussions…
There was a big row over the weekend as foreign journalists based in London found their accreditation requests for the summit denied. The Foreign Press Association wrote to Starmer to complain: “You state that you want a reset with the EU. You organise a summit between the UK and the EU to restart the relationship. Yet you deny accreditation to almost every European news outlet who has a foreign correspondent in London, leaving out the biggest news agencies, the most important papers, the most trusted broadcasters.” The Cabinet Office blames space restrictions and has blocked some UK-based Lobby journalists too…
After protests the government capitulated and some foreign correspondents were accredited for the summit. Guido hears 28 FPA members in total were accredited with 44 still denied. Did Labour not fancy the EU take on its “eight out of ten” deal?
Expect Downing Street’s ‘New Media Unit’ to be engaging influencers right now to talk up Erasmus and youth mobility changes instead of pandering to print hacks. Proceedings will take place in Lancaster House with a press conference attended by Starmer, von der Leyen and António Costa scheduled for 12.30 p.m. Reports of the deal’s terms are not going down well so far…
A dour response from Jonathan Reynolds on GB News this morning as the business and trade secretary only gives the EU-UK deal an eight out of ten score:
“Well look this is a solid eight I’m not the kind of man to get hyperbolic about these things but look, this is a good deal for borders, for bills, for
security in the UK and for jobs.”
He doesn’t sound too convinced. EU walking away laughing…
Guido is told this morning by multiple sources close to the UK-EU negotiations that Starmer has made a “massive sellout” on fishing rights in order to get the deal over the line. Negotiations were slowing down yesterday evening but accelerated after midnight as Starmer made a series of “concessions in the early hours” particularly on the length of access enjoyed by EU member states to UK waters. None of this is good for Starmer’s attempt to cosplay as right-wing…
Earlier this week Mike Cohen, chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations, had warned the government to hold its nerve on the issue. He told the Financial Times Starmer should refuse an EU demand to extend extant access arrangements to British waters. The paper reported: “Cohen said EU fishermen took about £500mn of fish each year from UK waters under a post-Brexit deal that comes up for renewal in 2026.” Meanwhile the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation wrote a letter to the PM urging caution – its chief executive told the BBC that “if another multi-year deal is on the table, that must come with some transfer of meaningful commercially viable fishing opportunities to the UK.” Starmer is going to suffer a huge backlash on this…
UPDATE: 12 year fishing rights confirmed. A major sellout…
UPDATE II: Nigel Farage says that is “the end of the fishing industry.“
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”