DANIEL HANNAN: How high a price will Starmer pay for new deal he's begging from EU?
Daily MailThe Prime Minister is promising a 'reset' as he hosts a long-scheduled summit of EU and non-EU states. France's President Emmanuel Macron talks to Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Meeting of the European Political Community at Blenheim Palace Mr Starmer speaks to the press at the summit at Blenheim Palace Will he sign up to 'dynamic alignment', promising to shadow future EU laws? Note that this is not mutual recognition, but a proposal for Britain to follow whatever the EU is doing Logically, this makes little sense. David Lammy and Keir Starmer during the meeting at Blenheim Palace on Thursday At the same time, Starmer is gearing up for a military pact, proposing to join the European Defence Agency, the European Defence Fund, and Permanent Structured Co-operation. These arrangements will commit us to follow EU rules on procurement and may require us to share intelligence, endangering our Five Eyes deal with our closest allies, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.