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A new security pact with Brussels is a key plank of Keir Starmer’s foreign policy strategy in light of moves by Donald Trump to distance himself from European security.
Brussels has proposed a €150 billion loan program for EU governments to spend on re-arming. The funds should be invested on a “buy more European” basis, according to Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president.
But without a formal defense agreement with Brussels, the U.K. will be locked out of the scheme.
Let down before
Asked whether he had seen comments by Brexit minister Nick Thomas-Symonds hinting that he favored a more stable arrangement, Zeichner said: “He probably would say that. But what we want to do is to secure the best possible outcome that we can for U.K. fisheries, and that will be a further discussion to be held in the months ahead.
“We’re absolutely determined to stand up to the U.K. fishing industry. The fishing industry has been let down before, and I don’t intend to let that happen again.”
The minister’s comments were welcomed by Alistair Carmichael, the Liberal Democrat MP who chairs the Environment Committee, who told him he was “absolutely on the money.”
“Fishermen felt that the deal that was done at the end of the Brexit negotiations was one that did not deliver what they had expected,” he said.
“Anything that is a further backwards step will be viewed very bleakly by the industry, and the even modest progress will still leave them quite a way short of where they want it to be.”
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