“Reconnecting with Europe” sets UK Labor foreign policy priorities |
LONDON, 24 january (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labor Party will “re-engage” with the rest of Europe if it wins power, and during Brexit judge He will aim to reverse the damage done by the conservatives in his foreign policy. chief said on Tuesday.
With Labor holding a large lead in opinion polls over the Conservatives, the party is expected next year national it presents itself as a government-in-waiting, gradually defining the agenda it wants to pursue if it wins the election.
Lammy said that the Labor government of Britain again Europe To the union or his unit will not want to join its market, but will try to restore trust with the bloc after years of damaging Brexit ranks.
Speaking to the audience at the Chatham House think tank, Lammy said, “Britain’s rejoining of Europe by leaving the EU is the next Labor It will be the main priority of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” he said.
“With Labour Britain back to the EU, unit to the market or customs will not join the alliance. But within our red lines, there is real progress to increase trade with our neighbors and bring prosperity to our own country.”
Bank of England officials, the effects of Brexit Britain He said that it has a heavy impact on the economy and that the trade in this country has slowed down compared to the rest of the world.
Lammy is the latest senior official to dash the hopes of EU supporters by ruling out a return to the bloc after Brexit Labor He was a legislator, but he increased trade and the Great Britain– The EU said it will work to continue the security pact.
INDEPENDENT STATUS
Labor leader Keir Starmer moved this month to try to improve Britain’s independent status Prime Minister Borrowing Boris Johnson’s catchphrase made famous on the Brexit trail, new ‘Take Back Control’ law said that he will present his project.
Lammy doubled down on that idea.
“My vision is ‘Britain closed again’,” he said. “A self-confident country outside the EU, but again a leader in Europe. A reliable partner, a reliable ally and a good neighbor.”
Prime Minister Under Rishi Sunak, the row with Brussels that marked the relationship under his two predecessors, Johnson and Liz Truss, has eased, but London and Brussels have yet to find a solution to post-Brexit trade issues in Northern Ireland.
The Northern Ireland protocol covering post-Brexit trade arrangements with the British-ruled province USAhas also tested relations with Ukraine, which Lammy said he would mend by working with Washington to maintain support for Ukraine.
He also said Labor would launch a “full audit” of Britain’s relationship with China, commit to restoring spending on development aid and create a new State Threats Cell with intelligence and security agencies to tackle “hostile actors”.
“The final priority of Labour’s new foreign policy should be diplomacy,” he said. “USA and healing the fissures opened by the protocol fiasco.”
In October National The Office for Statistics concluded that the UK’s level of trade openness – a measure of trade flows relative to GDP – had fallen more than other G7 countries in recent years, and noted that this coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic. Like Brexit.
As of the third quarter of 2022, the UK was the only member of the Group of Seven advanced economies whose output had not returned to its level at the end of 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reporting by Elizabeth Piper Editing by Ed Osmond
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2023-01-25 12:30:47
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