In a blistering video exclusively for GB News members, presenter Alex Armstrong voiced sharp criticism of the UK government's apparent willingness to roll back key Brexit gains. With the Labour leader Keir Starmer reportedly pursuing closer alignment with the EU, Armstrong said the development was a betrayal of the 2016 referendum result.
“You thought you were taking back control when you voted to leave the European Union all the way back, almost ten years ago?” Armstrong asked members pointedly. “Well, it looks like today what's being dubbed Keir Starmer's Surrender Summit. It looks like we're giving up those hard-won freedoms just to win some leeway onto small EU bureaucratic nonsense.”
'You thought you were taking back control?' - Alex Armstrong slams Starmer’s Brexit betrayal
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Armstrong drew particular attention to the UK’s fishing industry, a long-standing flashpoint in Brexit debates: “Things like our fisheries, which our fishermen fought so hard to win our freedom over. Looks like we're going to be selling them out.”
He also raised alarms about a proposed youth mobility scheme, which would allow greater movement of young people between the UK and EU countries. Critics see this as undermining the tougher post-Brexit immigration controls the UK fought to establish. Armstrong did not mince words: “We’ve also got a proposed youth mobility scheme, which is going to reverse some of those migration rules that we had got much tougher on.”
“What are we really getting out of this deal?” he asked, skeptical of any benefits such arrangements might bring. “It doesn't seem like a good one to me.”
Make sure to watch Alex Armstrong on GB News where he hosts The Saturday Five every Saturday from 6-8pm.
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