Keir Starmer's EU reset collides with reality as bombshell new report shatters Great Remainer lie

Earlier this week, the People's Channel revealed that British businesses are set to be hammered by new EU regulations under the incoming "SPS" deal.

Now, an exclusive analysis of Britain's average annual growth over the course of its 47-year EU membership casts doubt over the central plank of the PM's pitch.

The report, from Brexit think tank Facts4EU, in collaboration with Stand for our Sovereignty and CIBUK.Org, and shared exclusively with GB News, addresses the Remainer insistence that better off inside than out.

The data shows the results of the research into the UK’s official economic growth from the post-war period to the point where the UK exited the EU on December 31, 2020.

It shows the UK’s average annual growth halved from the moment of entry into what was then the Common Market (EEC), through the period of the Customs Union and then the Single Market, to the point of exit.

These figures shown below are adjusted for inflation and are therefore shown in real terms.

​Former Conservative Minister Sir John Redwood said: "The government says the EU re-set will boost growth by being closer to the EU. Experience shows the opposite is true.

"When we joined the Customs Union our growth rate slumped. When they completed the Single Market it fell again. The last thing the UK needs is more EU laws and taxes to cripple business."​

Reform MP for Newark and the party's Treasury Spokesman Robert Jenrick accused Labour of being "out of ideas."

He said: "The idea that Starmer’s EU reset is going to bring back jobs and leave people with more money in their pocket is laughable. This Government is out of ideas and is now trying to dig up failed policies from the past.

"Starmer should start fixing the mess he made, beginning by scrapping his ridiculous plan to hike fuel duty."

Last Wednesday a report was issued by the Labour-led Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee entitled "The UK-EU reset: rebuilding a strategic partnership in uncertain time."

The Select Committee is chaired by Dame Emily Thornberry MP, who had previously been Sir Keir’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, and before that, Shadow Foreign Secretary during Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

It concluded: "Our inquiry has highlighted shortcomings in how the Government has formulated its EU policy and conducted the negotiations to date.

"[These are] a lack of transparency about UK objectives and priorities, which appear to be shifting and changing constantly; a haphazard approach to consultation; and, most importantly, a lack of an overall vision for the new Strategic Partnership."

"The Government draws some of its priorities and objectives for the 'reset' of the relationship with the EU from the Labour Party manifesto, while others have only emerged since the 2024 General Election."

On Monday, March 9 2026 the DEFRA Secretary of State, Emma Reynolds made a statement to the House telling it what it already knew: that negotiations for the SPS foodstuffs deal were underway.

She said: "Negotiations are expected to conclude in the coming months, and we are aiming for businesses to be ready for, and benefit from, the deal from mid-2027."

Reacting to this, Sir John said: "EU policies are toxic for the UK. The fishing policy steals our fish and has destroyed most of our trawler fleet.

"The Common Agriculture Policy slimmed our dairy industry by restricting quota, cut our beef herds by regulations and grubbed up our orchards with grants."

"Their energy policy and carbon taxes are closing our energy using factories. Their car policy will shut all our petrol and diesel car plants by 2030.

"Their trade policy gave us a huge trade deficit and their re-set will boost UK imports from the EU by more than exports to it. EU policies hit hard the things we did export and favour EU exports to us."