Keir Starmer is heading to Brussels, becoming the first British prime minster to attend a European Union leaders’ meeting since the U.K. left the bloc five years ago.

Keir Starmer has been told to get off the fence and "take sides" in the looming trade war between the US and EU. Sandro Gozi, the European Parliament's "Brexit reset" point man, has warned the Prime Minister he will "have to make a choice" between the two alliances.

Marks & Spencer has backed Sir Keir Starmer’s bid for closer ties with the EU to end years of “Brexit bureaucracy”. Writing in The Telegraph, Alex Freudmann, M&S’s head of food, urged the Prime Minister to “move with pace” to strip away unnecessary red tape governing trade across the Irish Sea.