Labour's great Brexit betrayal has begun – Sir Keir Starmer is selling Britain out in his EU surrender summit
LABOUR'S great Brexit Betrayal has begun. It's taken less than a year since they came to office, but on Monday they will bend their knees to their new masters from Brussels.
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At a surrender summit taking place in London, Keir Starmer and his band of EU -obsessed cabinet ministers will formally place the United Kingdom on a pathway back under the control of the EU and they will betray the historic referendum result of 9 years ago.
When Labour negotiates Britain loses and our hard-fought Brexit freedoms are about to be sacrificed and surrendered.
Labour will try to dress this up as some form of reset, talk about protecting their co-called 'red lines' and deny backsliding on Brexit.
But I know that Sun readers will not be fooled by Keir Starmer's spin and Labour's lies.
After all, Keir Starmer has made a habit out of breaking promises – his pledges to freeze council tax and cut energy bills have been abandoned.
His pledge not to tax working people was broken with new taxes on family businesses, farmers and the punishing jobs tax which will cost every working household £3,500.
And we will never forget he pledged to protect pensioners energy but cruelly snatched away their winter fuel payments to fund pay rises for his trade union mates.
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Keir Starmer and Labour cannot be trusted on anything and they certainly can't be relied on to stand up for our national interest and defend Brexit because they have never believed in it.
From the moment the Referendum result was announced, Keir Starmer and the Labour Party set about undermining and sabotaging Brexit at every opportunity.
They plotted and schemed because they arrogantly thought they knew better than you, the British public.
That's why in Parliament Labour voted 48 times to block Brexit with Keir Starmer l eading campaigns for a second referendum, free movement and open borders, and keeping the UK tied to EU laws in a customs union.
Now he is Prime Minister, Keir Starmer is hellbent on selling Britain out and giving up the Brexit freedoms we have benefited from.
While Keir Starmer turns a blind eye to the benefits of Brexit, I know that Sun readers have welcomed them.
Since we left the EU, we have been free to negotiate new trade deals with fast growing economies across the world and our freedom from EU bureaucracy meant we could roll out the Covid vaccine and end lockdowns quicker than our European neighbours across the Channel.
We've also been able to secure a better deal for our fishermen and by ending free movement we have been able finally take back control of our borders from the EU.
But despite these benefits, for months Labour have been negotiating in secret with the EU, putting everything on the table.
Defence, migration cooperation, justice, fisheries and so-called youth mobility have all been up for grabs.
While the UK already has a good trade deal with the EU and effective mechanisms to cooperate on defence and security, Labour are preparing to negotiate away the freedoms that we have and bind us closer into the EU.
This will include Labour agreeing to make Britain a rule-taker once again under a process called dynamic alignment, subjecting British businesses to EU laws and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
Keir Starmer is also looking to put Britain into the EU's carbon trading mechanism which will whack up energy bills and he could even give in to the EU's demands on fishing.
Worryingly, Labour l ook set to open our borders and start the process of reintroducing free movement by the back door with some form of youth mobility scheme.
Let's be clear, Labour's plans are not about improving cooperation with our European friends and allies, they are about surrendering control to them.
Whenever Labour negotiates, Britain loses.
And after Monday's surrender summit, Labour have pledged to continue to negotiate away our freedoms to Brussels with more summits set to follow.
An official speaking on behalf of the Government has told representatives from businesses, charities and trade unions that: 'The Summit would also be the first of many, so even if something was not announced on 19 May, that did not mean that it would not be addressed on another occasion.' Piece-by-piece, law-by-law and summit-by-summit, Labour will betray Brexit.
They've also been begging organisations to speak favourably about their EU surrender deal as they try to flood the media with positive comments to hide the fact that they are betraying Brexit and our national interest.
While Labour surrenders our sovereignty and betrays Brexit, the Conservative Party will always stand up for Britain.
It was a Conservative Government that trusted the British people in the Brexit Referendum and a Conservative Government that got Brexit done and took us out of the EU.
That's why we have pledged to take back any powers Labour surrenders to the EU and why we will continue to fight on your behalf for strong border controls and to put Britain's interests first.
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