Rishi Sunak has promised a "reinvigorated" relationship with Europe, even as he pledged that the UK would "never align" with EU law. In a speech to dignitaries and business leaders at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in London, the Prime Minister signalled a shift in UK-EU relations in the wake of his predecessors Liz Truss and Boris Johnson.
"As we stand by Ukraine, we’re also reinvigorating our European relationships to tackle challenges like security and migration," he told the audience. In his address, he said that the UK was "evolving our wider post-Brexit relations with Europe, including bilaterally and engaging with the new European Political Community".
The first meeting of European Political Community, a project pushed by French President Emmanuel Macron, was attended by Ms Truss in one of her few international forays as prime minister. The move was taken as a sign that she wanted to thaw tensions between the UK and the bloc, which have soured amid the fallout of Brexit and a failure to reach an agreement on the Northern Ireland Protocol.
