Possible security pact overshadowed by need to settle EU-UK dispute over fishing rights
Keir Starmer’s hopes for a defence and security pact risk being stalled over fishing rights, as he heads to Brussels for the first post-Brexit meeting of its kind on Monday.
The wider EU-UK reset is not on the day’s agenda but Starmer is still facing calls from the Liberal Democrats to use the summit as an opportunity to push for a return to the customs union. Pressed on Sky News’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips programme on what different customs arrangements could mean, she said the government wanted to “get rid of some of the bureaucracy” across borders. Cooper ruled out joining the customs union as a “red line” but left the door open to the possibility of another type of customs deal.
One senior EU diplomat said the relationship with the UK had “many different buckets”, listing security, energy, fisheries, migration, youth mobility and a veterinary agreement, and said all were interlinked.
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