Keir Starmer’s Brexit ‘reset’ could see Britain rejoin Brussels’ Net Zero scheme, re-enter an EU free trade zone and relax migration rules. The Mail has the story.
As the Prime Minister prepares to become the first British leader since Brexit to attend a meeting of the European Council’s 27 EU leaders tomorrow, sources said the U.K. was in discussions to re-enter the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), which sets a cap on the amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted by certain industries.
U.K. officials in the Cabinet Office dubbed ‘The Surrender Unit’ are also discussing entering the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area, in what Chancellor Rachel Reeves hopes will stimulate the sluggish economy.
As part of the talks, Brussels is demanding that Britain partially reintroduces freedom of movement by allowing 18 to 30-year-olds from the EU to move to the U.K. for a few years, paying the same university fees as British students.
However, some No.10 strategists, led by Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney, fear the symbolic move to unwind Brexit will present a political “gift” to Labour’s opponents in the Conservatives and Reform.
Sir Keir failed to mark Brexit’s fifth anniversary on Friday, and today will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for talks at Chequers. …
Discussions to re-enter the EU ETS, a cornerstone of EU climate policy which the U.K. left in the wake of the historic vote to quit the EU, come amid a Cabinet rift over Ms. Reeves’ backing for a third runway at Heathrow, which Energy Secretary Ed Miliband once threatened to resign over. He has been conspicuously quiet since the announcement.
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