29 Aug 2024

UK: PM rules out Brexit reverse, warns of 'painful' Budget

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 29 August 2024
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference at the end of his cabinet's first meeting in Downing Street in London on July 6, 2024. (Photo by Claudia Greco / POOL / AFP)

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference at the end of his cabinet's first meeting in Downing Street in London on 6 July 2024. Photo: CLAUDIA GRECO / AFP

Sir Keir Starmer has met with his German counterpart, but says there'll be no reversal of Brexit.

UK correspondent Natasha Clark joins Kathryn to talk about Sir Keir Starmer's meeting with the German Chancellor in which he warned a reset of relations with the EU will not mean a Brexit reverse.

It comes as the UK government gets set to spend millions on new border requirements ahead of the EU implementing fingerprint and photo checks for travellers in the autumn.

And the October Budget will require some "painful" "big asks" of the public, the PM has warned.

Natasha Clark is political Editor at LBC radio