In today’s Substack video I react to the nothing burger that was the UK-EU summit in London yesterday, and talk about why it was the subject of vitriol that seemed to come out of a time machine from 2019. Some of the posts referenced in the video:
Is Starmer wasting the EU's time?
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming to Brussels today, three months after taking office in a landslide victory which ousted the Conservative Party which had been in power for the previous 14 years. But while Starmer has sought to change the mood music by repeatedly saying he wants a rapprochement with the EU, he remains hamstrung by the red lines which he set during the election campaign: no customs union, no single market, no free movement and no alignment.
Two-thirds of Brits want Starmer to drop his Brexit red lines
British Chancellor Rachel Reeves sat in on a Council meeting of EU finance ministers on Monday - a highly symbolic move given that these are meetings the UK chancellor used to attend regularly as an EU member. She gave the same warm words that her prime minister
What will Labour win mean for EU-UK relations?
I’m in Northern Ireland this week, talking to people about the unspoken elephant in the room in this UK election. It’s one of the most important issues for this forgotten corner of the United Kingdom. But neither the Conservatives nor Labour can even bring themselves to say the word (Labour apparently
