Starmer’s UK-EU reset suffering from ‘lack of direction’, MPs warn

Commons foreign affairs committee calls on prime minister to ‘end secrecy’ around push to improve bilateral relations

Starmer’s post-Brexit reset with EU lacks ‘direction, definition and drive’, MPs warn

Government urged to set clearer roadmap to save ‘languishing’ efforts to grow closer to the bloc

By Athena Stavrou

MPs say Starmer’s UK-EU reset lacks ‘direction, definition and drive’

Foreign affairs committee report finds summit improved political relationship but efforts lack ‘strategic priorities’ Keir Starmer’s efforts to reset the UK’s relationship with the EU are lacking in “direction, definition and drive”, parliament’s foreign affairs committee has said. A report based on months of expert witness testimony found the summit between the UK and the EU at Lancaster House last May had “substantially improved the overall political relationship” after years of Brussels-ba...

By Lisa O’Carroll