UK Labor starmer promises to improve Brexit deal, FT reports

Sept 17 (Reuters) – British opposition leader Keir Starmer has vowed to seek a major rewrite of Britain’s Brexit deal in 2025 if Labor wins the next general election, he said on Tuesday. Financial times reported on Sunday.

Starmer said he would put a closer trading relationship with Brussels and a new partnership with businesses at the center of his efforts to boost Britain’s economic growth, the British newspaper said.

Britain left the European Union at the end of January 2020. In April 2021, the EU backed the post-Brexit trade deal with Great Britain, called the trade and cooperation agreement (TCA). Then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would provide stability to Britain’s relationship with the EU.

This trade deal will need to be reviewed in 2025, and Starmer said he saw this as an “important” moment to reset relations, the Financial Times report added.

“Almost everyone recognizes that the deal Johnson struck is not a good deal; it is too thin. As we get closer to 2025 we will try to get a much better deal for the UK,” the Financial Times quoted Starmer as saying.

A spokesman for Starmer did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Starmer, whose party appears poised to win the next election according to opinion pollsHe also said this week that a Labor government would create a new police unit to combat illegal immigration and suggested he was open to a return deal with the European Union to resolve the crisis.

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