EU keen to deepen ties with a Labour PM but will not offer radical concessions
UK relationship βisnβt taking up as much of our mental space as it was a few years agoβ, says EU diplomat
Since 2016, Britainβs Conservatives have compared the European Union to Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, described a senior EU officialβs remarks as βbizarre and stupidβ and threatened to break international law with a unilateral rewrite of the Brexit deal. So an incoming Labour government does not have to do much to strike a different tone.
But while the EU is ready to deepen ties with a future Labour government β widely assumed to take office after 4 July β it will not offer radical concessions to Keir Starmer. EU sources, already welcoming warmer relations under Rishi Sunak, are looking cautiously at the changing political weather across the Channel.
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