Starmer’s post-Brexit reset offers clear benefits – but there is political risk too

Keir Starmer, centre, with the European Council president, António Costa, and president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, onboard HMS Sutherland in central London after the UK-EU summit. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

There were two moments at the UK-EU summit where it felt as if a corner had truly been turned. It was not on agrifoods, nor youth mobility, defence or fishing.

When Keir Starmer said the UK had changed, the most symbolic evidence of that came in a press release from No 10 that set out the terms of the agreement brokered at Lancaster House.