EXPOSED: Keir Starmer's 'stealth' Brexit U-turn 'betrayal' - as panicked Labour admits it hands Nigel Farage the keys to No10

Now, MPs have slammed Starmer for his "Brexit betrayal" and have chastised Labour for its "complete reversal of what the British people voted for" - as well as its knack for pushing voters into the populist arms of Nigel Farage and Reform UK.

Speaking to the People’s Channel, former Home Secretary and fervent Brexiteer Suella Braverman branded the deal a "betrayal of democracy" and "an insult" to the 17.4 million who voted to rescind membership of the bureaucratic bloc in 2016.

"Labour's 'reset' will see us rejoin the EU in all but name," she warned.

With the Government's new deal, she declared that the PM is "determined to undermine the greatest political moment in a generation by stealth" - and Braverman is not alone in her indignation as leading Brexiteer Boris Johnson announced that Britain had become the "gimp of Brussels".

Now, Tory MP and Eurosceptic Andrew Rosindell told GB News: "At the General Election, it was made clear that Labour wouldn't reverse Brexit. But unfortunately, this so-called deal is reversing Brexit.

"It's doing the absolute opposite of what the whole purpose of leaving the European Union was about - that we took back control."

According to Rosindell, Britain will be forced to:

• Give back legal control to the European Court of Justice;
• Give back fishing control to EU trawlers;
• Give back regulatory control to red tape-happy Brussels.

"We made our own decisions, but now we're going to have to abide by theirs again," he blasted.

Starmer has faced a barrage of criticism on the matter. By ceding access to British waters to European fishermen for the next 12 years, many believe the PM has fumbled one of the UK's most powerful negotiating tools in future discussions.

Instead, he has raved about border checks which had blocked small food businesses from continental trade. He has also praised various other benefits to Britons, including their new ability to use e-gates in EU airports.

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"The whole thing is a complete reversal of what the British people voted for, and not only that, they're going to pay a lot of money back into the pot again," Rosindell slammed.

"It really is a complete reversal of Brexit. It's the worst of all worlds."

The Romford MP took to the Commons to ask whether the Leader of the House would raise a debate on the state of British democracy following the summit, saying: "This so-called EU reset is in fact a surrender of our hard-won Brexit freedoms, with rule taking from Brussels once again.

"Will she please let the British people's views be paramount, not the short-term views of the Government?"

However, Lucy Powell insisted that people voted for the departure of the EU alongside retaining "many benefits of trade and co-operation" - many of which the Tories were unable to settle following the referendum.

"He cannot have it both ways. One of the promises that his Government made was that leaving the EU meant we could do lots of free trade deals with other countries," she said.

"We cannot have surrendered ourselves to the EU if we are getting those trade deals and securing those benefits at the same time."

Nevertheless, Rosindell told GB News that his Government was "too slow" and urged the Tories to adopt a policy "to feed all the opportunities that Brexit gives us".

"There's lots of things we could have done when in power that we didn't do. Our policy now should be to not only reverse what Labour is doing and cancel this surrender deal with one which goes in the absolute opposite direction and utilises all the freedoms we've got to our advantage."

But another former Cabinet minister warned the Tories of adding to the excessive polarisation and division - and encouraged the party to not simply "trot the old lines out".

On the reset, Tobias Ellwood told GB News: "You're labelled as un-Tory, if you like, if you're not really a Brexiteer. I'm trying to prove that you can be right of centre, but also supportive of a strong relationship with Europe, which has actually long been our case. It was Margaret Thatcher that created a single market."

He added: "I’m really saddened that my party has boxed themselves into a position which is now going to work against us in the longer term because, as time goes by, the younger generation is actually saying to rejoin."

Most Britons (53 per cent) have said that they would support rejoining the EU, while 66 per cent advocate a closer relationship with Brussels, including 52 per cent of Leave voters and 54 per cent of Reform backers in 2024, national pollsters YouGov found.

Ellwood admitted: "It's been rather tiresome to see the old line trotted out. Unfortunately, it's become such a simplistic debate that EU = bad. Anything to improve that economically and security wise, must be embraced.

"To somehow dismiss this as giving up, relinquishing to Brussels, and then complaining that, because we left the club, we're not allowed to access it. Well, that's what happens when you leave the club."

Now, Ellwood, along with several of his ex Cabinet colleagues, is "dismayed" that the Conservative Party is being critical "just for opposition’s sake".

"They have chosen to anchor themselves down, which will come, I think, to haunt them in the long-term," he warned. "From the reset, actually, there are some elements here that we can genuinely support, that are good news.

"And that's perhaps where a more nuanced, more grown up opposition would perhaps pursue. But it shows who the kingmakers are in the Conservative Party.

“Still, there's a small group of voices - the donorship, party base and so forth - that absolutely doggedly believe in this stance, and drive the wider thinking.”

The “so-called” reset could even come at a great personal cost for the Prime Minister, with Reform and Labour MPs alerting Starmer that his backtracking on Brexit will have consequences.

Deputy leader of Reform UK Richard Tice slammed Starmer for his capitulation to the bloc, delivering a cheeky yet damning verdict on the deal in the Commons.

He told MPs: “In Boston and Skegness my fishermen are furious that the Prime Minister has surrendered the fishing industry and my constituents are furious that you have surrendered on freedom of movement and on rule-taking under the ECJ [European Court of Justice.

“But there is good news. Prime Minister, do you accept that you have also surrendered the jobs of many of your backbench MPs at the next General Election to Reform?”

Perhaps more damning is that many of Starmer’s own echoed the same sentiment. Labour MP Baroness Hoey declared that the PM’s deal will simply act as a “very big boost” to Reform’s already booming electoral success at the local polls earlier this month.

The PM "will pay the penalty in Labour areas where he seems to think that Labour voters have kind of given up on Brexit, which is not in the slightest bit true, and which Reform has shown isn’t true," she told The Telegraph.

"I think this will be a very big boost for Reform and another move towards the ending as soon as possible of a Labour Government."

Taking to X, she fumed: "Are there any Labour MPs prepared to stand up for the 17million people who voted to leave the EU and against the Starmer sell-out?"

Labour’s Red Wall chief Jo White said that the reset would see the Government "tighten immigration with one hand and potentially loosen the string with the other" as part of deal includes a youth mobility scheme between the UK and EU members.

In fact, the PM is threatening a U-turn on his very own words from his previous promise to crackdown on net migration, unveiling a White Paper to combat Britain becoming an "island of strangers".

Explaining that she failed to see the point in the scheme, White said: "If this just becomes a way of overseas kids filling the low-paid job vacancies in London rather than looking to see how young people from areas like mine could be opened up to opportunities and experiences that they would never have otherwise dreamed of, then I would really question the value of it."

EU relations minister Nick Thomas-Symonds defended the scheme, insisting that it would be "smart and controlled".

Meanwhile, Graham Stringer - another one of Starmer's MPs - declared that accepting EU standards and regulations "completely undermines the whole reason for being out".

"I think dynamic realignment is definitely a betrayal because it’s giving everything up," he said, echoing Andrew Rosindell.

Scratch beneath the surface, and deeper disillusionment with the PM is evident. The party's grassroots seems unimpressed by the deal too, with founder of Labour Beyond Cities pressure group David Littlewood telling The Telegraph: "Labour should have kept with Brexit and supported it.

"It would be a mistake to build a party platform that looks like an alternative to Farage by throwing the principles behind Brexit under the bus."

Local Labour anguish is sure to add to Starmer's list of concerns, with his top team already trying to fend off a potential rebellion of more than a quarter of his parliamentary party, with 130 MPs disgruntled over the Government's proposed benefit cuts.

And it's sure to bring a smile to Nigel Farage and his loyal party members up and down the nation.

As politicians peer at Britain’s leader with a scepticism which, in the past, was exclusively reserved for Europe, the latest "disastrous" deal by Labour could become the nail in the coffin for the mainstream as we know it.

With the Brexit debate once again flooding the halls of Westminster, another pivotal moment for Reform could be on the horizon - just weeks after the populist party sunk holes in former Conservative strongholds around the country.

So far, Farage has been able to lead successful movements before in the EU referendum, as well as previous General Elections, by taking control of the debate and winning the votes from the electorate.

Armed with well-versed cheerleaders and a tried-and-tested taste for success, the Brexit revival might provide the Reform leader with the ideal weapon in his arsenal to swipe the keys to No10 from Starmer at the next General Election, taking down Labour for good.