When Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the UK-EU ‘reset’ deal on Monday, the Prime Minister said that “Britain is back on the world stage”. As Ben Habib opined in an interview, the “massive smile” of von der Leyen at the conclusion of the UK-EU summit could only mean that the UK was “taken to the cleaners”.
Speaking of the furious backlash across swathes of British communities of farmers, fishermen and the majority who voted for Brexit in 2016, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson observed in a brutal retort that “Britain will once again be paying countless millions of pounds into EU coffers for the privilege of becoming the non-voting punk of the European community”.
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