Today’s the day of Sir Keir Starmer’s big UK-EU summit and just hours ago it was confirmed that the UK had indeed struck a broad-ranging deal covering defence, immigration, food trade and fisheries with the European Union. The Prime Minister will hold a Lancaster House presser at 12.30 p.m. today to share the details – and in the lead-up to the announcement government ministers have been busy on the airwaves lauding the PM’s progress. Yet Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds appeared just a little lacklustre when telling GB News his views on the agreement…
‘I’m not the kind of man to get hyperbolic about these things…’
Presenter Eamonn Holmes quizzed Reynolds on how he would rate what Starmer has wangled. ‘Secretary of State,’ Holmes began, ‘let’s just try and put this simply because there’s a lot of news emerging. Is this a good deal or a bad deal? If ten was your best deal, how would you score this one out of ten?’
Responding, the Labour man replied matter-of-factly: ‘Well, look, this is a solid eight.
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