Starmer’s great big Brexit betrayal
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4.1 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Not content with having surrendered British fishing rights in an extraordinary “reset deal” with the EU last year, Keir Starmer is preparing to move Britain even closer to Brussels in 2026.
The Prime Minister is drawing up a new bill allowing for closer alignment with Europe's single market.
Camilla and Tim are joined by Sunday Telegraph editor Allister Heath, who says Labour are “desperate if they think rejoining will get them votes” as the EU is “in catastrophic decline”.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.8 | Once a remuner, always a remuner. |
| 0:12.6 | Kirstama is planning to sell Britain out to the EU. |
| 0:15.7 | We get Alistair Heath's horrified take on the government's plan for closer alignment with Brussels despite Brexit. |
| 0:23.7 | We're also going to discuss the latest retail bloodbath. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tominy. |
| 0:30.3 | And me, Tim, and we're joined in the studio by the brilliant Alastair Heath, editor of the Sunday Telegraph and ace columnist for this great news organisation. |
| 0:52.5 | UK government ready's Brexit dynamic alignment bill. |
| 0:56.9 | It's not just a kind of anecdotal reset or warm words towards the EU, |
| 1:02.7 | but actual legislation, Tim, is being readied apparently this spring or summer, |
| 1:08.9 | establishing a legal framework for UK-EU alignment, the man |
| 1:14.3 | who as shadow Brexit secretary did attempt multiple times to reverse the referendum, Kier-Stama, |
| 1:21.5 | under Jeremy Corbyn, shock horror, is continuing his quest to stop Brexit, perhaps not quite as overtly as he states, but through legislation. |
| 1:31.4 | All the while insisting that's not what he wants to do. |
| 1:34.0 | But in the same way that we discover that the private members bill for euthanasia, |
| 1:38.2 | we now think probably had top government support. |
| 1:43.0 | Likewise, these little initiatives, if you put them together, all amount to what we suspect |
| 1:48.3 | is a top level government strategy for getting back into the EU. |
| 1:52.0 | So we have already had the EU reset deal in May that surrendered fishing rights to British |
| 1:58.7 | waters for the next 12 years. We've already got the government |
| 2:02.2 | talking about signing up to a single market in food, signing up to a single market in electricity, |
| 2:07.5 | and we are rejoining the Erasmus scheme for student exchanges from 2027, which we absolutely |
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