Five years after Britain took a leap into the dark, as it were, when it left the European Union (EU) on January 31, 2020, the Labour Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer’s government has embarked upon an official reset in relations with the bloc of 27 nations. On Monday, Sir Keir became the first British premier, after the country’s exit from the EU, to address the European Council, the grouping of EU heads of government, where he made a strong pitch for a bilateral agreement on security and defence, areas of traditional UK strengths. The two sides are also slated to hold the first post-Brexit summit on May 19 in London.

Nick Thomas-Symonds, the minister in charge of relations with the bloc, characterised the new engagement as “ruthlessly........

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