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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mark Sweney and Phillip Inman

Reeves to pledge closer EU ties in pivot from post-Brexit ‘division and chaos’

An EU flag flutters outside parliament with Big Ben in the background
Rachel Reeves summed up the UK ties with the EU since Brexit as ‘fractious’. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Rachel Reeves plans to end the UK’s “fractious” post-Brexit accord with the EU, a relationship she said had been defined by “division and chaos”, by promising closer ties in the first speech by a UK chancellor to eurozone finance ministers since 2020.

Reeves will say she wants to adopt a “business-like” approach through an “economic reset” with the EU, offering the goal of driving up trade and growth.

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