{"id":214680,"date":"2023-09-24T00:21:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T00:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=214680"},"modified":"2023-09-24T00:21:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T00:21:03","slug":"sir-keir-starmer-faces-growing-calls-to-clarify-brexit-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/sir-keir-starmer-faces-growing-calls-to-clarify-brexit-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer faces growing calls to clarify Brexit policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sir Keir Starmer faces growing calls to clarify flip-flopping Brexit policy, after Cabinet Minister called his record on the EU a &#8216;catalogue of opportunism&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>James Cleverly said the Labour leader is &#8216;obsessed with looking at the EU&#8217;<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>It comes as Starmer said &#8216;friction&#8217; will be reduced if we &#8216;share values&#8217; with the EU<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing calls to clarify his flip-flopping Brexit policy, after a senior Cabinet Minister called his record on the EU a &#8216;catalogue of opportunism&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>After footage emerged on Thursday of the Labour leader saying that &#8216;the more we share values&#8217; with the EU, the less friction there would be&#8217;, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly accused Sir Keir of being &#8216;obsessed with looking at the EU&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cleverly told The Mail on Sunday: &#8216;His record on the EU is a catalogue of opportunism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He voted to remain, then he was in favour of a second referendum, then he wanted to make Brexit work, now he wants to &#8220;rebuild&#8221; ties with the EU by rejoining in all but name by the back door \u2013 before adding that he doesn&#8217;t want to rejoin. He couldn&#8217;t flip-flop more if he was on a beach.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The footage showed Sir Keir telling a centre-Left conference in Montreal: &#8216;We don&#8217;t want to diverge [or] lower standards, we don&#8217;t want to rip up environmental standards, working standards [and] food standards.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/24\/00\/75770373-12553705-image-m-46_1695510340794.jpg\" height=\"417\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer (pictured) is facing growing calls to clarify his flip-flopping Brexit policy<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/24\/00\/75770315-12553705-image-a-28_1695510004582.jpg\" height=\"885\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Secretary James Cleverly accused Sir Keir of being &#8216;obsessed with looking at the EU&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Accusing Sir Keir of being &#8216;backward-looking&#8217;, Mr Cleverly said: &#8216;The world sees the UK as a giant, Labour thinks the UK is a minnow. [At the conference] he was laying the groundwork to turn back the clock and revisit Brexit arguments of the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He and his party will say anything to try to please anybody, because he doesn&#8217;t understand the British people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Politicians need votes, but risking Britain&#8217;s reputation because you can&#8217;t believe we will survive and thrive out of the EU is a lack of faith I don&#8217;t and won&#8217;t share.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12553705\/Sir-Keir-Starmer-faces-growing-calls-clarify-flip-flopping-Brexit-policy-Cabinet-Minister-called-record-EU-catalogue-opportunism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Keir Starmer faces growing calls to clarify flip-flopping Brexit policy, after Cabinet Minister called his record on the EU a &#8216;catalogue of opportunism&#8217; James Cleverly said the Labour leader is &#8216;obsessed with looking at the EU&#8217; 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