Glad to draw line under poisonous Brexit era, diplomats say Starmer’s new approach to EU brings ‘good vibes’
Labour’s proposed foreign policy and security pact with the EU sounds “quite promising”, the head of the European parliament’s foreign affairs committee has said, adding that the British government should use the next weeks and months to come up with proposals that are “as concrete as possible”.
David McAllister, a veteran German MEP and close ally of European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said such a pact should cover economic, climate, health, cyber and energy security. His list overlaps with the sweeping set of ideas proposed by the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, who recently met his counterparts in Berlin, Stockholm and Bydgoszcz in northern Poland.
