LONDON: British PM Keir Starmer welcomed leaders from the European Union to Oxfordshire in south-east England to initiate a “reset” with the 27-member economic bloc, which the UK is no longer a member of since a referendum in favour of leaving it in 2016.
At a meeting of the European Political Community (EPC) in Blenheim Palace, Starmer sought to set a new direction for his Labour Party government’s post-Brexit ties with Europe to align on issues such as illegal migration and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
He reiterated the “unworkable” scheme of deporting illegal migrants to Rwanda had been “scrapped” and that the UK will never withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.