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Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse House shots the Spectators Daily Politics

podcast I'm Oscar Eonson and I'm joined today by Katie balls and Charles Grant

director of the Center for European Reform.

So Kiestarma is in Blenham Palace today for the meeting of the

European political community and he's been talking up his plans for a reset of relations with Europe and we can hear some of his opening address now.

We will strengthen our existing relationships and we will build new ones.

This includes resetting our relationship with the EU, because I believe that the UK and the

EU working together as sovereign partners are a powerful force for good across our continent.

For peace, for security, for prosperity, for all our people.

Charles it seems that the the aims here are closer strategic ties with Europe so what

what does this reset look like?

Well, Kia Starmonosi's got to counter a lot of negative images that affect the way the EU's seen in the EU countries.

It's quite hard for us to imagine that since Boris Johnson hasn't been

Prime Minister for several years, but his his his his his his tenureship of his tenure of

Downing Street really went down very badly with our EU partners. The way you behave

particularly threatening to tear up an international treaty with the withdrawal

agreement went down very badly. Ritchie Sunnack did restore Britain's

reputation to some considerable degree, but he still talked about tearing up the

European Convention on Human Rights or Britain leaving it anyway some of the time is a possibility.

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