Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin has hit out at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's newly signed deal with the EU, branding it "absolute nonsense".
Speaking to GB News, the representative for Runcorn and Helsby claimed that the agreement with Brussels marks a "complete betrayal of Brexit".
Announcing the deal at a summit in London today, Starmer confirmed the UK-EU agreement will be "good for jobs, good for bills and good for our borders".
He stated: "Britain is back on the world stage. Working with our partners, doing deals that will grow our economy and putting more money in the pockets of working people."
Keir Starmer's latest deal with the EU has been blasted by Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin
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Delivering her verdict on Starmer's deal, Pochin fumed: "This is absolute nonsense. This is an absolute betrayal of Brexit. It'll come to no surprise to anyone watching this programme that I was an avid Brexiteer, but Keir Starmer is taking us on a slow march back into Europe.
"He is absolutely betraying the will of the British people. Keir Starmer has called this a win-win deal, it's a lose-lose deal."
Highlighting the impact on British workers, including the fishing industry, Pochin told GB News: "He sold out the British workers with his Indian trade deal, he sold out the farmers with his US trade deal, and now he has completely sold out the British fishing industry.
"It is finished with this deal, let alone the fact that we will become closer, aligned once again to the European Court of Justice, which we absolutely do not want."
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Issuing a stark warning about Labour's newly reset relationship with the EU, Pochin cautioned: "We have the best courts and the laws in the land in this country, we do not want to be aligned closer to them again.
"And all this talk about letting lorries through the border without being checked? Well, that is just dragging us back towards EU regulation and checks that we don't want, and red tape that we don't want."
Offering a defence for the deal, Labour MP Barry Gardiner told GB News that "all trade deals are a matter of balance", and Britain has "negotiated" a deal that "Brexiteers wanted at the time".
Gardiner explained: "If you remember back to the Brexit debate, those people who are arguing for Brexit have in effect got what they said at the time, because you remember, one of their arguments was, look, we actually have the same regulations about our food standards and sanitary and phytosanitary controls as the EU at the moment.
Pochin told GB News that the deal is 'dragging the UK back into EU regulation'
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"The Brexiteers used to say that they will impose border controls on the stuff that we want to export to Europe. Well, unfortunately they did.
"But now what we've managed to negotiate is saying to them, look, we have the same regulations, why don't we drop the border controls? And the EU's agreed to that."
Claiming that UK exporters of goods will see "millions of pounds" in benefits, Gardiner concluded: "It's going to be worth millions to our exporters, because one of the things that the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee did after Brexit was to actually bring in all the exporters who were saying, 'we're having terrible time' because our langoustine are being blocked at the border.
"They then go off before we can get them into French restaurants, our trade is being blocked and the food is going off. Now all of that won't happen now, and that is a great plus."
