{"id":10429,"date":"2023-12-01T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=10429"},"modified":"2023-12-01T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:14:30","slug":"brexit-backlash-as-david-lammy-pledges-european-union-is-labours-top-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/europe\/uk-news\/brexit-backlash-as-david-lammy-pledges-european-union-is-labours-top-concern\/2023\/12\/01\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit backlash as David Lammy pledges European Union is Labour\u2019s top concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The Tories have criticised Labour for making the EU their main concern<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LONDON: Labour has come under fire from the Conservatives after David Lammy, the Shadow Foreign Secretary and a close ally of Sir Keir Starmer, declared that the EU would be the top priority for his party if they came to power.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lammy, who campaigned with Sir Keir to overturn the Brexit vote, vowed that a Labour government would change the UK-EU relationship and move away from the current Government\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n<p>He praised Sir Keir\u2019s rapport with EU diplomats, saying it was \u201clike honey on toast\u201d, in contrast to the Tory leaders\u2019 isolationist attitudes. He told the i newspaper that he was so confident that his pro-EU position would appeal to the voters that the Conservatives might have to reconsider their own Brexit policy. He also did not rule out rejoining the EU in the future, implying that it could happen if there was a cross-party agreement.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cMy sense is that Europe would demand one, Britain would have to demonstrate that. So I don\u2019t see that over the next political cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/eu-ties-are-labours-foremost-foreign-policy-agenda-david-lammy-declares\/\">https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/eu-ties-are-labours-foremost-foreign-policy-agenda-david-lammy-declares\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/european-union\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a>\u00a0is our number-one priority. It\u2019s our number-one priority because it\u2019s our backyard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our number-one priority because there is war in Europe and because I believe our future prosperity and security is predicated on good relationships with our European partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lammy pledged there would be \u201ca tonal shift under a change of government with our neighbours in Europe\u201d if they win the election next year.<\/p>\n<p>He also pledged the party will hold regular talks with the bloc, around every four months \u201cto discuss the issues that matter to both parties. We need to get back to that\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tories have criticised Labour for making the EU their main concern LONDON: Labour has come under fire from the Conservatives after David Lammy, the Shadow Foreign Secretary and a close ally of Sir Keir Starmer, declared that the EU would be the top priority for his party if they came to power. Mr Lammy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[2395,2399],"tags":[29,285,379,464,7680,7685],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/eu_uk.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10432,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions\/10432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}