With Keir Starmer in town, EU officials and diplomats say their expectations were too high when the British PM took office last year.

Sir Keir Starmer has provoked further anger over his plans to unpick Brexit by agreeing to hold a UK-EU summit in Britain. Downing Street confirmed the event will take place in May despite widespread dismay that the Prime Minister is being too cosy with Europe.

The constitution and EU relations minister delivered a major speech this morning setting out the framework for the government’s “Brexit reset”. Nick Thomas-Symonds, a longtime close ally of the prime minister who resides in the Cabinet Office,

Keir Starmer travels to Brussels on Monday, becoming the first British prime minister to attend a European Union leaders’ meeting since the U.K. left the bloc five years ago. Starmer