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All I would say to Starmer is don't take us back so closely to the EU that you damage our ability to do a trade deal with America, that's my real message."
The Reform UK leader told the Daily Express
First, Ukraine has shown how tech is transforming the battlefield – so it’s vital that we focus more on research and development,
he saidFifth, we should deepen our industrial collaboration,
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If our commercial interests are attacked, Europe, as a true power, will have to make itself respected and therefore react.”
Responding to his comments, French prime minister Emmanuel Macron said
UK is out of line but I'm sure that one… I think that one can be worked out.
Asked about the prospect of tariffs by the BBC overnight, Mr Trump said
I'm here to work with our European partners on keeping up the pressure, targeting the energy revenues and the companies supplying his missile factories to crush Putin's war machine,
Sir Keir saidThe Brexit project, breaking away from the EU to create a global Britain, didn’t work. We thought it wouldn’t work because the UK is European, geographically and economically. Brexit was a project for a stable and prosperous world, but in a complicated world, obviously the UK will be closer to Europe,
one source told The TimesEvery single capital has moved on, and nobody has been discussing as a priority the relationship with London. Of course it remains important but within a long list of important things,
a third person, a senior EU diplomat, said
I currently spend about 10 minutes a week thinking about the U.K.”
The first diplomat quoted above addedThe substance is not there but it’s not like anything’s breaking because of it,
one EU diplomat told POLITICOA lot of people would like things to happen immediately. That said, that’s not how the world of international relations often works, nor the world of politics, ... I think we actually are seeing progress.”
they told POLITICO, addingThe law must be upheld everywhere.”
Last summer the Prime Minister told the social media billionaires to clean up their act warning them
Linking the UK and EU emissions trading schemes will make carbon emissions more expensive
Independent energy consultant Kathryn Porter, of Watt Logic, said
If Labour drag the UK back into more EU emission regulations, they will add more costs to businesses and for consumers.
Tory business spokesman Andrew Griffith addedUnder the terms of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the UK Government and EU agreed to consider linking our respective carbon pricing schemes and to cooperate on carbon pricing.
A government spokesman saidIt makes no sense to lock us into EU net zero policy by adopting their emissions trading scheme
Conservative peer and former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost told the MailWe’ve been very clear with Sir Keir about what he’s not to be doing, going off to Brussels, selling out this country.”
Shadow Cabinet Minister Andrew Griffith yesterday saidWe share security interests with the UK and the UK shares it with us,
the diplomat said
This is the very moment where we have to develop as Europeans and as friends of Ukraine, our common strategy,
said Scholz
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It's early days, and what I want to see is strong trading relations, and in the discussions that I've had with President Trump, that's what we have centred on,
said Starmer