New EU Deal, Reform's Top Team & Italian Blockade

Labour are pushing for closer ties to the European Union.

Hello all, welcome back to another edition of Heaver News! I hope you are having a great start to your week.

After attempting to play down the idea that a Labour Government would seek to rejoin the European Union, Keir Starmer is finally letting slip what we all knew anyway: that Labour will seek to move the UK closer to the EU.

Last week it was Labour’s crackpot migration proposal involving EU quotas that they now seem to have u-turned away from in record time.

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As ever thanks to paid subscribers of Heaver News for your comments in response to last week’s post. Zorro is pretty unimpressed by the idea of a Starmer-led Government:

“Whatever Starmer does he'll be wrong. Ask the voters if they want the Euro. Every £100 suddenly worth £90. Every item costing £100 now becomes £110.

“Germany is in the third quarter of recession, France rioting, youth unemployment in Greece and Spain 25%.

“Europe is turning right. Which direction does Starmer want to go?”

Mrs. Bucket meanwhile isn’t won over by MPs from across the spectrum:

“Few of them have ever been in, never mind succeeded in the private sector which has harsher terms of employment: do the job or you're out.

“So it's the overpaid Public Sector/Civil Service for them...and achieve nothing, just shuffle papers and let the world ruin Britain.”

Whilst Hilary is encouraged by Reform UK’s recent announcement:

“Interesting, at the time of writing this Reform announce their Shadow Cabinet of which I am pleased to see some good people proposed.

“Seeing Reform start to put meat onto their political bones is very much needed so that the electorate can begin to envisage what a Reform Government could look like, and so that their credibility as serious contenders takes shape.”

I will go into Reform’s big announcement later on in this newsletter but let’s just return to Labour first, who are now suggesting changes to the EU Deal.

Fresh off last week’s fairly disastrous Labour announcement, Starmer is once again discussing Brexit and pledging to rewrite the Deal, pushing for a closer relationship. This tells us a number of interesting things.