Nigel Farage slammed Keir Starmer’s EU renegotiation (Image: Getty)
Nigel Farage has condemned Keir Starmer’s yesterday as an “act of humiliation” in a brutal tear down.
The Reform UK leader pointed out that ’s big meeting with EU leaders in Belgium yesterday took place at the same building in which Ted Heath signed Britain’s sovereignty away in 1973.
He described the symbolic venue as “a bit disturbing” before describing the PM’s anti- grovelling as “completely unnecessary”.
The Clacton MP fumed: “That was an act of humiliation. It was completely unnecessary, but Starmer went along with it.
“I think the most alarming thing that came out of last night was the agreement to deepen industrial collaboration.
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Sir Keir met with EU leaders in Belgium yesterday (Image: Getty)
“Does that mean we’re joining part of an EU industrial policy? Does it mean, in terms of defence, we’re joining their procurement programmes?
“There are still a lot of unanswered questions, but I didn’t like the language at all. And the very fact that he was there discussing such things shows you that our Prime Minister is a Rejoiner at heart.”
Mr Farage also attacked ’s 2020 deal as not very good, pointing out there are probably more EU fishing vessels in British waters now than there were before .
However he argued Britain should aim to be friendly and cooperative with Brussels without signing away more sovereignty to the EU’s unelected bureaucrats.
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He warned that tying the UK closer to the EU means it will be more difficult to agree new trade deals with the United States and the rest of the world.
Mr Farage said he was “fearful” of such a move: “My fear is we tie ourselves to EU law, that we start to accept Single Market regulations, and there are many indications from this government that’s what the intend to do.
He made it clear his priority would be a trade deal with the USA, not the EU, and “look across the rest of the world”.
“If we want to turn our economy around, we need to realise our biggest problem is not overseas trade, it’s our desperate desperate lack of productivity within the UK.
“Yes of course the EU’s an important market, no one’s denying that, but with every year that goes by it becomes less important. Let’s think bigger.”