Keir Starmer Accused Of Betrayal As He Prepares To Reverse Brexit

UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer has been accused of betrayal after forming an EU ‘surrender squad’ to reverse Brexit.

He has created a team of more than 100 civil servants to run the UK’s negotiations with Brussels, which insiders claim is aimed at undoing the historic 2016 vote to leave the EU.

Critics warn that the Prime Minister IS on the brink of jettisoning the freedoms and opportunities of Brexit to permanently lash the UK to an EU superstate, returnI it to the role of rule-taker rather than rule-maker.

The Mail Online reports: Insiders say the new team, to be established in the heart of the Cabinet Office, will aim to ensure that any concessions yielded to Brussels will be almost impossible to undo by a future Tory government.

A source said: ‘The officials are being drawn from every government department, and they have been told that they will have full powers to demand whatever they need from any corner of Whitehall to make the reset work.’

Last night Tory leader Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir of ‘taking us backwards’.

She said: ‘In every negotiation – from trade union pay deals to the Chagos islands – Keir Starmer has given away everything for nothing in return.

‘The question now is what price we all pay for the Prime Minister to take us back to his EU comfort zone?’

The Mail on Sunday understands the new EU unit will be situated in plum seats in the Cabinet Office – close to the door to No 10 – which are currently occupied by senior national security officials. 

It will be run by a £200,000-a-year civil servant with the title of Second Permanent Secretary, European Union and International Economic Affairs who will report to Nick Thomas Symonds, the Minister for European Union Relations.

Lord Frost, Boris Johnson’s former Brexit negotiator said Labour instinctively wanted to rejoin the EU. 

He said: ‘The plan has been blown by the fact that they can’t hide the creation of this Surrender Squad in the Cabinet Office. This huge unit is getting ready for a major renegotiation – it will have more people than I had for the original deal with the EU in 2020.

‘Everyone in this Government really wants to rejoin the EU one day. Only public opinion is stopping them. So they are trying to act in secrecy and conceal their plans to align with EU rules, to bring back EU law and to give away our fishing grounds, by calling all this just a “reset”.

‘Unless we can stop them, the reset will end with this country once again in the EU’s orbit, gradually losing our ability to set our own rules and make our own laws. It’s time for those who support our national independence and democracy to wake up.’