As voters desert Labour for Reform, the last thing Keir Starmer should do is sell out Brexit
Why’s he bending knee to Macron?
“YOUTH mobility is not free movement.’’
Really, Sir Keir?
On the eve of his “Surrender Summit’’ in London tomorrow, the PM uses bizarre logic.
He fails to grasp why, as the UK is swamped by uncontrolled migration, there is fury that his “reset’’ with the grasping EU will allow a fresh pool of Europeans into the UK.
The 17million who voted Leave in 2016 rightly see it as a craven betrayal of Brexit.
And the cagey refusal of arch-Remainer Sir Keir to commit to any details is causing more frustration.
He points to a similar youth visa scheme the UK has with Australia.
But this is tightly capped at 42,000 a year. Visitors must have £2,500 in savings and leave after two years.
By contrast, the PM has so far refused to reveal any cap to this EU scheme and the number eligible for the free movement programme is a vast 80million.
No doubt he will be keen to stress tomorrow that, as part of the deal, UK firms could get access to the £125billion military fund being set up by the EU.
But President Macron is already striving to prevent them getting more than 15 per cent of the fund.
And the price of any deal?
Complete surrender of our fishing waters, servile compliance with Brussels rules and slavish devotion to the European Court of Justice.
This country has been the backbone of European military defence for centuries, so why’s the PM so keen to offer so many concessions to Macron and his cronies?
As voters desert Labour for Reform, the last thing he should do is sell out Brexit and bend the knee to Brussels.
Lammy shambles
IN AN era of global uncertainty, the Foreign Secretary’s role couldn’t be more important.
David Lammy has the job of representing our nation in its vital dealings with the world’s most powerful figures.
This also makes him a terror target.
So it beggars belief that he is now caught in an embarrassing row over a holiday cab fare.
After a week of lurid claim and counter-claim, the truth is still far from clear.
But what is evident is that Mr Lammy travelled in a car with an apparently unvetted driver.
And it has now emerged that he was not accompanied by security.
The implications of this are terrifying and the Foreign Office needs to take a long, hard look at what went wrong.
Mr Lammy now faces the prospect of having to give evidence in a French court.
This ugly squabble is unbefitting for one of our great offices of state.