this video was brought to you by brilliant since coming to power starmer has pursued a conspicuously cautious brexit policy having previously campaigned for remain and then a second referendum since becoming labor leader in 2020 starma has ruled out basically any significant changes to the current brexit agreement he's ruled out a customs Union the single Market freedom of movement and a couple of weeks ago said that the UK wouldn't rejoin the EU in his lifetime however as the political risks of what we might call dexi zation of way we've seen signs that labor might actually be open to a closer relationship with the EU that has previously been suggested especially via their proposed UK EU security agreement so in this video we're going to take a look at Labour's plan for brexit this new Security deal and how things might change in the [Music] future before we start if you haven't already please consider subscribing and ringing the bell to stay in the loop and be notified when we release new videos so let's get straight into it broadly speaking starmo and labor wants to do three things to improve UK EU relations the first is a change in tone labor just want to be friendlier and easier to negotiate with than their conservative predecessors especially Boris Johnson who at least in the eyes of the EU had a habit of reneging on its promises and Liz truss who once famously questioned whether or not macron's France was a friend or Foe of the uks this is fundamentally because stama sees no political gain in starting fights with the EU both because Labour's base and parliamentary party are broadly proe and because starma has in many ways pitched himself as sort of the anti Johnson someone who will repair the UK's International standing by maintaining good ties with its International allies and by not breaking international law now the second change is a number of relatively minor amendments to the current brexit deal technically known as the trade and cooperation agreement or TCA the TCA provides for reviews of implementation every 5 years with the first June 2026 and originally senior labor Figures were optimistic that these reviews could be used to make some pretty substantial changes mostly aimed at reducing trade frictions along the EU UK border however while some member states are open to renegotiation the big players in the EU have since made it clear that they're not all that interested in reopening Old brexit Wounds largely because well the EU just has a lot on its plate at the moment including Ukraine's accession a trade war with China and escalating internal disputes between what we might describe as the pro-european establishment and an Ever growing euroskeptic contingent mostly from the political right understandably many EU countries therefore don't want to have to spend more time talking about brexit it and would instead prefer to focus on the plethora of other more pressing issues facing the block at the moment labor have duly toned down their expectations and they now only want to make some pretty minimal changes from what we've read it seems that there are three changes that starmer and Co want to make first they want closer regulatory alignment with the chemicals industry in an interview with the financial times a few days before the election Chancellor Rachel Reeves talked about a bespoke agreement for the chemical industry to reduce UK EU trade frictions and the cost of registering in the UK second labors Manifesto said they want to negotiate a Veterinary agreement to prevent unnecessary border checks for context since brexit the EU has treated agre food exports from Great Britain like raw meat and dairy products as if they were coming from a third country this means that the relevant products now need both physical checks to ensure compliance with EU standards and what's known as an export health certificate which in turn requires a signature from a vet on top of this border checks for medium or high-risk products like live animals were phased in at the end of April 2024 this is pretty standard practice in international trade between third countries but because the UK and EU used to do a lot of trade in aggra food before brexit these new checks have proved pretty disruptive and labor hope that by negotiating an agreement that would reduce these checks they can make things easier for both British and European and exporters thirdly labor also want an agreement on Mutual recognition of professional qualifications or mpq in practice this basically means that people who are qualified in certain professions in one territory are recognized as such in another so for instance if you're qualified as a professional accountant in the UK you can do business in the EU as a qualified accountant without having to re-qualify by doing a whole load of different exams in a different country in theory this could be great news for the UK economy given that the UK's main export is Professional Services and the EU is its largest proximate Market services are actually one of the UK's unsung strengths the UK is the second largest Services exporter in the world after the us but there are a couple of caveats worth mentioning here firstly the UK service exports to the EU have actually held up relatively well so far without a deal so it's not obvious that this would have a Major Impact secondly while there are some Provisions within the TCA for MRP qqs experience suggests that these usually take time Canada for instance had similar Provisions in their trade deal with the EU but because European professionals didn't want to be undercut by their British or Canadian equivalents they can often resist MRP Qs which means they take ages it took Canada nine rounds of negotiations over more than a year to do a deal specifically for Architects conscious of The Limited nature of these changes the Third Improvement that labor have suggested is supplementing these changes with a new UK EU Security deal this is something the EU is actually pretty keen on because the UK is still considered one of the big military players in Europe and the UK and EU currently have basically zero formal mechanisms for coordinating security and foreign policy labor have suggested that this deal could touch on a range of other areas as well in an article in foreign affairs from April foreign secretary David Lamy said that the deal should quote Drive closer coordination across a wide variety of military economic climate Health cyber and energy security issues now the scope of any legally binding agreement will be limited by the fact that if it touches on areas like energy or AI regulations then it would have to abide by single Market rules so labor might instead prefer a political agreement that could be signed relatively quickly and then built on over time such a deal would also give the UK leverage if labor la decided that they want a better brexit deal more broadly in other words Labour would be able to use the promise of a legally binding security agreement which is something that many EU countries would be keen on in exchange for better trading terms while they're wary of De brexiting at the moment there are two things that might make labor change their mind here first the political calculation could change if the mundanity of 5 years on the back benches renders Arch brexiteer Nigel farage and his Reform Party politically redundant or if Labor's parliamentary party start pushing for a closer relationship secondly if economic growth and therefore tax revenues remain stagnant labor might decide that a closer relationship with EU is both their best chance at boosting the UK's growth rate and less politically risky than raising taxes or borrowing more money to pay for the necessary repairs to the UK's crumbling Public Services regardless we'll have to keep an eye as the months go on how Labor's approach and attitude towards W brexit begins to shift it's interesting that 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