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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker and Alexandra Topping

Renewed ties with EU needed to boost UK security and economy, says Starmer

Keir Starmer pictured in front of union flags last year
Keir Starmer argued that, nearly 10 years after the Brexit referendum, it was time to ‘look forward’. Photograph: Thomas Krych/Reuters

The economic and security benefits of a closer relationship with the EU are “simply too big to ignore”, Keir Starmer has told parliament as the British government prepares for more rapid alignment with European rules.

Updating MPs on the Iran conflict and his visit to the Gulf last week, the prime minister was explicit about what he argued was the need for renewed ties with Europe given the chaotic global situation and Donald Trump’s unpredictable US administration.

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