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       Labour’s “reset deal” with Brussels amounts to a betrayal of Brexit, Lord Frost has warned, accusing Sir Keir Starmer of handing over key powers to the European Union without securing anything in return. The former chief Brexit negotiator said the Labour Government was “offering it up for nothing” in an effort to please Brussels, despite the UK already having a “massive” trade deal in place.

       He told GB News: “A lot of people seem to think we have no trade agreement with the EU at all. We've got this massive one that has been working perfectly well. But Labour have to say it's working badly to justify all the concessions that they're about to make in the next couple of days.” Labour is seeking closer relations with the bloc, without rejoining the single market or customs union. Negotiations continued overnight with insiders suggesting a deal has been agreed, and will be unveiled later on Monday.

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       However, Lord Frost, a familiar figure in the protracted period which followed the 2016 referendum, argued the changes amount to a quiet return to EU control over key areas of national policy.

       He said: “There were some teething troubles in the first days of this deal, but they've settled down, and there's no evidence of queues. There's no evidence of problems.

       “If you're thinking about airports, we already let European travellers through e-gates in UK airports. They don't allow us through. So if there's a problem, it's generated on the EU side, not on ours.”

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       On reports Labour is preparing to agree a defence deal with Brussels, he said: “We didn't see the need for a defence agreement. We're perfectly happy to talk about it, but we wanted there to be something that we got in return.

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       “The EU didn't want to offer that, so we didn't have a defence agreement. Now, Labour seems to be willing to offer it up for nothing. I don't know what we're getting out of this deal.”

       He warned Labour appeared willing to give ground on fisheries, just months before the UK is due to take full control of its coastal waters under the terms of the 2020 agreement.

       He explained: “We had to accept a slightly longer transition period than we wanted in 2020. But that transition is coming to an end in the middle of next year, and we get full control of all our fishing grounds.

       “So it's a particularly bad moment to suddenly decide to give all that up again and allow EU fishing boats to carry on fishing. We don't benefit in any way from it.”

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       He claimed Labour had “meekly gone along” with the EU’s demands: “What the Labour negotiators seem to have done is accept the EU's view — which is to say we won't talk about what you want to talk about until you've accepted the things that we want. And they put fishing on the table.”

       He warned the EU was taking advantage of Labour’s willingness to make concessions: “They never wanted Britain to be a completely free country. In 2020 they worked really hard till the very last moment to try and keep us subject to their laws and courts.

       “Now they've spotted they've got a Labour Government that really doesn't mind giving those things away, so they've begun a negotiation that's ended in that.”

       He also raised the alarm over the possibility of dynamic alignment with EU rules, which he said would strip Britain of regulatory independence.

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       “This is exactly what we were trying to avoid. We worked very hard in 2019 and 2020 to avoid this happening.

       "There's a specific provision in the 2020 agreement that says there is no EU law in this agreement. Now we're just giving this away.”

       He added: “One mustn't exaggerate. It's not the end of Brexit, but it is a step back towards being controlled by the European Union in important areas of our national life. And that's not what people voted for in 2016.”