SIR Keir Starmer is preparing to wave the white flag to Brussels in a fresh Brexit betrayal, Kemi Badenoch has warned.
The Tory chief accused the PM of lining up a string of concessions to the EU just to say he’s “reset” Brexit relations.
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It comes as the PM is heading to Albania today for last-minute talks with EU leaders ahead of a major London summit, where he’s expected to sign a new defence and trade pact.
It is understood that in return, Sir Keir has put fishing rights, immigration rules and legal powers all on the line.
Writing for The Sun, Ms Badenoch said: “Keir Starmer walks into negotiations with a white flag at the ready…
“The Brexit vote was not a polite suggestion, it was a clear instruction: to put Britain first.” She warned British waters could be handed back to French trawlers “for no good reason”, calling it “a fundamental betrayal of Britain’s fishing community”.
And she raised alarm over Labour’s support for an EU Youth Mobility Scheme, saying it “would see us accepting seemingly unlimited numbers of unemployed 20-somethings from Romania and Bulgaria… all coming over here to take UK jobs.”
The Tory leader accused Labour of preparing to make Britain “a rule-taker from Brussels once again” by aligning food laws, restricting farmers from using modern crops.
And she warned the plan to join the EU’s carbon trading scheme will leave Sun readers “saddled with even more expensive bills, just so Keir Starmer can say he ‘got closer’ to Europe.”
Vowing to reverse any Brexit row backs, Ms Badenoch said: “A future Conservative Government will take them back. I will always put Britain first. And when the time comes – I will make it right.”
Ms Badenoch will head to Brussels herself today to speak at the IDU Forum – a global gathering of centre-right parties.
She will argue Britain’s relationship with EU countries can be improved without “being supplicant”.
