{"id":38302,"date":"2025-12-23T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/keir-starmer-told-closer-eu-trade-ties-strategic-necessity-for-uk-firms\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:13","slug":"keir-starmer-told-closer-eu-trade-ties-strategic-necessity-for-uk-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/keir-starmer-told-closer-eu-trade-ties-strategic-necessity-for-uk-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer told closer EU trade ties \u2018strategic necessity\u2019 for UK firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour urged to accelerate reset with Brussels as many exporters struggling to trade in the EU after Brexit deal<\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer\u2019s government has been told a closer EU trade deal is a \u201cstrategic necessity\u201d for companies in Britain as growing numbers of exporters find it tougher to do business under the UK\u2019s post-Brexit agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Calling on Labour to accelerate its reset with Brussels, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said the UK\u2019s existing trade and cooperation agreement (TCA) was failing to help them grow their sales in the EU.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/dec\/22\/keir-starmer-told-closer-eu-trade-ties-strategic-necessity-for-uk-firms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour urged to accelerate reset with Brussels as many exporters struggling to trade in the EU after Brexit deal Keir Starmer\u2019s government has been told a closer EU trade deal is a \u201cstrategic necessity\u201d for companies in Britain as growing numbers of exporters find it tougher to do business under the UK\u2019s post-Brexit agreement. Calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 17:18:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}