Published: May 19th, 2025,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Five years after Brexit, the EU and the UK want to move closer together again. Following the first EU-UK summit since Brexit, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke of a win-win deal that benefited both sides. He rejected criticism that he had sold out the interests of British fishermen or betrayed the red lines of Brexit. For London, a tricky part of the package is that EU fishing fleets will now have access to British waters for a further twelve years from 2026. This was the price for an agreement on food safety (SPS), which is intended to remove the barriers to access to the EU internal market for British farmers and food exporters.