09.31 BST
Tories
accuse PM of 'hit job on taxpayers' after report says EU would make UK pay for
better single market access
On Sky
News Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, has just said that in principle his
party welcomes the announcement from Keir Starmer about joining the EU’s €90bn
loan for Ukraine. (See 8.40am.) But he would want to see the details, Stride
said.
However,
his colleague Priti Patel, the shadow foreign secretary, was a lot less happy
about the Times report suggesting the UK could end up paying the EU up to £1bn
a year for better access to the single market.
In his
Times report, Oliver Wright says:
European
negotiators have made it clear that paying the cash, expected to amount to
about £1bn a year, is a condition of further access to the EU’s single market.
They want
Starmer to make the concession in principle at a summit between the prime
minister and European leaders this summer before detailed negotiations on more
integration.
“If the
UK wants further integration they must ‘pay to play’,” one European diplomat
said. “That is not unusual.”
The
govenrment has not denied the story, although it has suggested it does not
recognise the £1bn figure.
Commenting
on the report, Patel said:
Starmer
is unpicking Brexit and planning another undemocratic hit job on British
taxpayers by signing us up to a £1bn annual payment to the EU.
Once again, this weak prime minister goes to the negotiating table, comes home empty-handed, having fleeced hard pressed taxpayers with his terrible judgment
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