GLOVER: When will Starmer wake up to the EU's desire to punish Britain

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : May 19 is supposed to be a red letter day when EU and British leaders will gather in London to agree the 'reset' in relations on which Sir Keir has set his heart.
56% : This is only the most recent example of the EU failing to embrace the besotted pro-European Sir Keir Starmer in the fraternal way he dreams of.
56% : The EU needs us.
51% : The truth is that Starmer idealises the EU, as diehard Remainers do.
51% : The EU has been pressing for a 'youth mobility scheme', which would enable 18-30-year-olds to work in Britain for a limited period.
51% : Despite having publicly vetoed this idea, the Government has in fact been discussing it with the EU.
50% : But when the fine print is studied, it'll be clear that the EU has got more out of the 'reset' than the UK.
49% : It won't reason that the citizens of the EU and the UK would be safer in their beds if information of this sort were freely shared by both sides.
49% : The Government has been negotiating for an animal and food safety deal, which would obviate the time-consuming and obstructive paperwork that the EU likes to load on hapless British exporters.
46% : Because the EU has long hankered after permanent access to Britain's fishing waters, it has seen an opportunity to link the Government's desire for a food deal to the question of fishing rights.
46% : Any agreement probably won't prevent Donald Trump from interpreting the summit as Britain throwing in its lot with the European Union.
42% : Britain is neither part of the EU nor of the Schengen agreement on open borders.
40% : EU negotiators reportedly made clear last week that there could be no access to the Schengen Information System or to the EU fingerprinting scheme, Eurodac, which has a record of all illegal migrants caught trying to enter the European Union.
37% : If the EU were prepared to share its database, the Home Office could find out where an illegal immigrant arriving in Britain had previously applied for asylum and been rejected.
35% : In March the European Commission announced that it would borrow up to 150 billion euros to lend to EU governments under a rearmament plan necessitated by the threat from Russia, combined with concerns that Europe can no longer be sure of US protection now that the maverick President Trump is in charge.
28% : If the EU were prepared to share its database, the Home Office could find out where an illegal immigrant arriving in Britain had previously applied for asylum and been rejected, writes Stephen Glover There will doubtless be a tremendous jamboree on May 19, and the Prime Minister will herald a new dawn in our relations with the EU.

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