Not content with having surrendered British fishing rights in an extraordinary “reset deal” with the EU last year, and also signed up to pay £570m per year to rejoin the Erasmus European student exchange programme, Keir Starmer is preparing to move Britain even closer to Brussels in 2026. The Prime Minister has ruled out forming a customs union, rejoining the single market or revisiting freedom of movement, but he is drawing up a new bill allowing for closer alignment with Europe on energy,