EU 'will demand access to UK fishing waters' in return for a closer relationship with Britain in fresh headache for Sir Keir Starmer's fledging Labour government

The European Union volition request entree to UK waters successful instrumentality for a renewed narration with Britain - but specified a determination could origin a headache for Sir Keir Starmer amid claims by British fisherman of 'trading distant their rights'.

Labour has made nary concealed of wanting person relations with Europe and past week hosted a gathering of dozens of European leaders astatine Blenheim Palace.

The Prime Minister welcomed respective premiers including Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz, Pedro Sanchez and Giorgia Meloni for the European Political Community meeting, which discussed trade, security, overseas argumentation and immigration.

However elder Eurocrats person warned that immoderate talks with the EU connected a renewed narration volition beryllium utilized to prosecute their 'offensive interests'.

This includes sportfishing access, arsenic good arsenic a woody to let young European migrants unrestricted entree to the UK.

Just earlier the General Election, Sir Keir Starmer said that 'everything' astir the post-Brexit narration needed re-negotiating and described the woody struck by Boris Johnson as 'botched'.

He besides vowed to onslaught a 'better' 1 if helium won the Election.

Now successful complaint of the fledgling Labour Government, Sir Keir has been offered an EU-UK acme successful Brussels Charles Michel, the European Council president, to statesman specified talks.

But what precisely volition beryllium connected the docket for the EU's 27 premier ministers and presidents  inactive remains to beryllium decided.  

An EU authoritative told The Telegraph: 'First they person to enactment retired precisely what they privation and past travel to america and we volition speech astir it.' 

Fishing is much than apt to beryllium apical of the list, according to EU sources.

French premier curate Emmanuel Macron is anxious to unafraid a amended woody from the EU broadside fixed that the UK-EU fisheries woody expires astatine the extremity of June 2026.

He told reporters astatine the EPC that immoderate renegotiation should not go a 'cherry picking' of what had been decided earlier nether Boris Johnson.

Macron said: 'This 1 evidently has to respect what was decided astatine the clip and should not beryllium a benignant of cherry picking.' 

German chancellor Olaf Scholz  was much conciliatory and said: 'It is excessively aboriginal present to spell into the details, but determination is simply a willingness to lick each question that needs to beryllium solved successful bid to person bully relations.' 

Before the election, elder Eurocrats predicted that sportfishing would instrumentality precedence astatine immoderate talks with the EU.

One told The Times successful June: 'If a caller authorities wants caller commercialized talks, France volition marque definite that immoderate commercialized negotiations by the European Commission are linked to fisheries.

'The occupation for Britain is that the marine extortion areas are wherever the food are that the French, and others, privation to catch.' 

Under the post-Brexit UK-EU commercialized deal, 25 per cent of the wide existing EU quota successful UK waters volition beryllium transferred to the UK implicit a five-and-a-half-year modulation play to 30 June 2026.

After 2026, negotiations connected entree and stock of stocks volition instrumentality spot connected an yearly basis, though multi-annual agreements are possible.

Labour volition beryllium successful complaint of these if it wins the Election, on with a reappraisal of the wider commercialized pact scheduled for adjacent year.

British diplomats were said to beryllium alarmed past period erstwhile the EU, nether unit chiefly from France, began pressing to statesman the sportfishing negotiations and triggered a quality mechanics implicit British marine biology extortion measures.

In April the European Commission besides tabled a 'youth mobility' proposal, including the request that nary bounds would beryllium acceptable connected numbers of radical aged betwixt 18 and 30 coming to enactment oregon survey for 4 years, with afloat rights to bring their household members to Britain.

Lord Frost, Mr Johnson's main negotiator for the post-Brexit commercialized deal, warned successful June that 'if the EU gives you thing it wants thing back..'

While connected the run trail, Sir Keir tried to play down immoderate imaginable revers of Brexit successful regards to sportfishing rights and said helium acknowledged their value for British fisherman.

He said astatine the time: 'I'm not going to spell into negotiations which haven't adjacent started yet.

'But I cognize however important it is to support our sportfishing rights and however important that is to our sportfishing communities.

'I deliberation they consciousness they've been fto down due to the fact that they were told they would get a amended woody than they got, and we wouldn't fto them down successful this and commercialized distant their rights, due to the fact that that entree and that sportfishing is captious to those communities.

'And I deliberation conscionable astatine the infinitesimal they are feeling they've been precise fto down.' 

While Labour's manifesto said it would not re-join the bloc's azygous market, customs national oregon let state of question again, it did pledge to 'deepen ties' with Brussels.