Foreign Secretary David Lammy is meeting European counterparts while Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted to improve trading and defence ties.
Sir Keir Starmer said work has already begun to build closer ties with the European Union following Labour’s landslide election win.
He added that it depends on “respectful relationships, talking to leaders across the EU and of course that work has already begun”. Elsewhere, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the return of freedom of movement with the EU was not on the table as part of efforts to improve post-Brexit trade. He said the Government’s proposal for an “ambitious and broad-ranging” UK-EU security pact would seek to “underpin closer co-operation between us”.
Appearing on the Sunday morning broadcast round, Business Secretary Mr Reynolds said “removing some of those barriers to trade makes sense” when discussing future working with the EU. Pressed on free movement of people, Mr Reynolds said: “We’re not open to the free movement of people, that is something that is part of membership of the European Union and, as I said, we’re not revisiting that.”
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