Can Starmer reset Britain’s relationship with the EU?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer is in Berlin, this time for some real politics, not a football match. He’s meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, unveiling a new UK/Germany defence agreement. Later he’s heading to Paris to meet President Macron. The new government is on a charm offensive, with much lofty talk of a reset of UK/EU relations post-Brexit. But is that really possible? How much is just vibes? Lewis and Jon analyse what has happened and crucially what has not happened, and are joined in News Agents HQ by German Ambassador Miguel Berger.
We also talk about whether there’s any truth that Mr Mandelson might be going to Washington and Jon is shilling for his book again. What fun.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | A new UK-Germany treaty, a once-in-a-generation chance to deliver for working people in Britain and in Germany. |
| 0:23.7 | A new agreement, a testament to the depth and potential of our relationship with deeper links |
| 0:31.6 | on science. |
| 0:32.7 | That was Kirstama, speaking in Berlin with the German Chancellor Olaf Schultz, announcing a new UK-Germany treaty, |
| 0:41.1 | focusing on defence but on lots of other issues as well. |
| 0:44.7 | It was the fifth time in just seven weeks he's met Schultz and later today he'll be heading to Paris |
| 0:49.7 | to meet President Macron for the fourth time. |
| 0:52.8 | Yeah, it's all about harnessing the power of government |
| 0:57.2 | in the service of working people. |
| 0:59.8 | That is the catchphrase. |
| 1:01.5 | But what does it mean? |
| 1:02.6 | There's a lot of talk of a reset in the relationship |
| 1:06.2 | between Britain and Germany and Britain and France. |
| 1:10.4 | But is this atmospheric or is this substance? And are we |
| 1:15.5 | heading back towards the European Union? Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. |
| 1:25.2 | It's John. It's Lewis. And for anyone wondering, it's certainly not. |
| 1:29.3 | We're not heading to the EU just yet or probably ever. |
| 1:32.3 | But it is notable, as I was saying at the top, in less than two months as Prime Minister, it has been clear from everything the UK government has said, actually from what the EU has said, that there is certainly a mood in the |
| 1:45.7 | air, and it might be nothing more than the mood, that there is an opportunity to conduct, as |
| 1:51.4 | John was saying, a reset in EU-UK relations, which clearly in the past few years have been |
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