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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Peter Mandelson criticises ‘fetish’ for scrapping EU rules that work in Britain’s favour

Peter Mandelson has hit out at what he said was a “fetish” for scrapping EU rules that work in Britain’s favour but warned that the UK will not rejoin the bloc “for the foreseeable future”.

Speaking at the Atlantic Council in Washington, the UK’s ambassador to the US defended Sir Keir Starmer’s “reset” deal with the EU, saying the previous deal Britain had struck with the bloc was “pretty miserable”.

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