Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has slammed the government’s new EU deal as a “sellout”, claiming it gives away UK fishing rights for over a decade. She said coastal communities had been betrayed and described the agreement as a “surrender deal”, accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of reversing the Brexit referendum “in all but name”. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I am gobsmacked that Keir Starmer has signed this deal.
00:04This is a sellout, certainly on fishing.
00:07I cannot believe that instead of getting better terms on fishing, we've got worse terms.
00:13I was worried that he was going to come back with three years for the next negotiation.
00:17It's 12 years.
00:18It's going to be over a decade that we are giving away our fishing rights.
00:22That sells out so many coastal communities in the UK.
00:25It's not that we don't want the benefits of the deal.
00:28It's making sure that we pay the right price for it.
00:31And just giving away so much for small improvements, in my view, is not worth it.
00:36That's why we call it a surrender deal.
00:38The bottom line is that Keir Starmer made promises before the election that he would not reverse the referendum result.
00:46And he's pretty much done that in all but name.