What does Keir Starmer really believe in? His deal with the European Union will provide answers | Tom Baldwin
yourEir Starmer had to grow more thicker over the past few years, but there are times when critics can still turn to. One of the moments came this week, when he answered a question about whether there is “any belief that he holds for a week in Downing Street” Patch: “Yes, the belief that she talks about garbage.”
You may know that it was not a great response, not the least of which is because the deputy who raised this flash from the layer, Liz Saville Roberts from Plaid Cymru, is far from being the most worthy of the recipient. By interpretation, if not justification, it should be noted that Starmer’s feelings were already raw this week after a Suspect At his family’s home in northern London. He also felt frustrated because his announcement of proposals to reduce the numbers of immigration was interpreted as dancing on the melody of Nigel Varage, or even a deliberate echo to the racist higher that Enka Powell played half a century ago.
The best evidence will be provided that such wide attacks from the brand will be provided in London on Monday, when the Prime Minister signs a new deal with European Union. Define formulation is still crushed this week amid a mixture of usual abbreviations – SPS, ECJ, SDP, ETS – which can make European policy not penetrate. There is no doubt that its meaning will withdraw it more when the reform blows and the conservatives blow into excessive allegations about being a “betrayal” of the 2016 British referendum to leave the European Union. Perhaps the influence on people’s lives will not be completely clear until the additional negotiations on the details are completed. “This is a process, not one event,” one of the conversations said yesterday.
But the real importance is that they appear that Britain has moved away from the narrow and follow-up idea of sovereignty-a sunken nation that does not need anyone else to survive and prosper-was at the heart of post-empire’s Powell beliefs and presented the intellectual foundations of the unprecedented precedents.
It is amazing to hear now that the senior consultants on Downing Street are now describing how the threats facing Britain, from Russia, Vladimir Putin, to the climate crisis, does not respect any national sovereignty or borders. One of them told me: “The way to all treat them with international cooperation.” But Starmer is not stars about the intentions of the European Union. He knows that he will do his best to extract painful concessions from the United Kingdom. At the same time, the government is still bound by its electoral promises that excluded joining the unified market and the customs union or allowing freedom of movement with the European Union.
However, these “red lines” no longer seem arduous as they did before. One of the catalysts of this change was to admit that the United States was no longer a stable ally because Donald Trump resumed residency at the White House. On Monday, the new security and defense agreement from democratic countries from this continent will not be able to coordinate the necessary re -arms to protect Ukraine and defend themselves against Russia, but also makes British military manufacturing companies eligible to provide bids to obtain some massive funding at least from the European Union purchases.
Likewise, the shock of Trump’s tariff made it necessary for the United Kingdom to have a closer commercial relationship with the European Union, with an agreement eventually to alleviate livestock barriers and fresh food products. There will be screams of pain on any compromise of “Food versus Fish” that gives European Union boats access to British waters, but the proposed agreement should make it easy for small merchants to export seafood to Europe. Although plans to link the UK carbon emissions trading scheme with the European Union may lead to the leading headlines in right -wing newspapers about the potential consequences of home energy bills, the deal is now necessary and urgent to secure manufacturing functions – not the least of which is steunhorpe.
Download Street is more powerful than it could have been a few months ago about confronting the opposition of “dynamic compatibility” with the rules of the European Union to reach food and energy markets, or give a role to the European Court of Justice in settling disputes. Advisors believe that there is little appetite for the arguments of sovereignty in the era of Britain’s exit from the European Union among voters who are more interested in jobs and living levels.
Although the Ministry of the Interior is still proven to reduce the number of migrants, Monday will witness a “intention statement” to agree on a fixed number of visas for the youth transport plan between the United Kingdom and the European Union, in addition to some warm words about reducing travel restrictions for musicians who tour in Europe. More work on exchanging data to combat illegal immigration must be done, but progress is made in restoring some cooperation before Britain’s exit from the European Union regarding allowing the rapid return of asylum seekers to the countries they demanded for the first time in the refugee situation.
What goes through all this is not an ideological desire in Britain to join the European Union, but a series of accounts about following the national interest on jobs, protecting the borders and defending some recognized British values. Some people may not like his choices, while others complain that he changes his opinion. But the best answer to the question about what Starmer really believes is that in a dangerous time in a very troubled world, this Prime Minister is an uncomfortable pragmatic, and my country.
