Shadow Foreign Secretary Dame Priti Patel has taken aim at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's "appalling surrender deal" with the EU, following his announcement today.Speaking to GB News, Patel launched a scathing attack on the Labour leader's "outrageous" agreement with Brussels, claiming the Government are "bending the knee" to Europe.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00You've been through that document there. Hold it up for the viewers to go and see it.
00:03There's not just one. There are surrender documents after surrender documents that Keir Starmer and his appalling government have just signed us up to.
00:11And, Martin, you know what is so dreadful is the sheer dishonesty by the government.
00:16They've been working in silos for 10 months now.
00:19Behind the scenes, we've asked plaintive questions about what is going on.
00:22But they've just literally bent the knee, bent the knee when it comes to Brussels and every single aspect of the way in which they've just sort of fallen at the feet of Brussels to take us back in.
00:34It is a surrender deal, but ultimately it's a betrayal of Brexit.
00:38And I think I can use that language on the basis you know exactly where I was in 2016, along with so many others that stood up for the 17 million people that voted to leave.
00:48At the end of the day, that's a win for the EU. That's a win for the EU. That's a win for the EU.
00:54The list is endless. And then you've got Keir Starmer having the audacity, Chopper, you were in the room, to stand up and say, this is good for Britain.
01:03There's no evidence of that. There's no impact statements. There are no details whatsoever on the substance.
01:09But having gone through many of the documents today, and to be quite frank, I mean, you know, I've spent years reading EU speak,
01:15so you then have to translate it. Martin, you've probably been there yourself.
01:18Yes, for my sins.
01:19We can absolutely see there is stuff in here where we are now going to be legislated on through the EU.
01:26So this is now the old-fashioned transportation of EU laws back into British law.
01:32So, Chopper, your approach now and your line of questioning will be totally different when it comes to Parliament.
01:38We're going to have to go back to having some of the scrutiny that we used to have some time ago.
01:43Without having a committee, because these guys don't like democracy, they don't like transparency.
01:49And the fact that Keir Starmer couldn't even come to Parliament today to speak about this is equally as appalling.
01:54In terms of the headlines, what leapt out greatest to you?
01:58A lot of people, of course, are talking about fishing.
02:01We've had fishermen on the show who feel really that they've reached the end of the line.
02:05This feels like for them the death knell of the British fishing industry.
02:07So, I absolutely think, look, I mean, I look at this all from, you know, UK PLC people, people and their livelihoods.
02:15And we've known, I mean, Starmer and Farmer and Farming and Agriculture is just a shocking story.
02:21So, absolutely, farming, no question about that in terms of accepting EU food standards.
02:28I mean, sorry, our standards are the best in the world.
02:30Why are we going to compromise and be complicit in compromising and exposing our farmers, first of all?
02:36And on fishing, what I think has happened is an absolute disgrace.
02:39The fact that he even put fishing on the table for negotiation with a 12-year sellout where we can't come back and question and interrogate and stop EU countries from coming into our territorial waters is an outrage.
02:53He's fundamentally let this industry down.
02:56And fishermen, this is about their livelihoods, the security of their livelihoods in the future of UK fishing.
03:02That's outrageous.
03:03And, you know, he stood up on the stage today, didn't even think about that.
03:07And you can see he's totally insincere.
03:09It's just a press conference, it's statements, it's him groundstanding with the two presidents just back-slapping each other, saying how wonderful they are and how wonderful this deal is.