Authors:Derrick Wyatt
Date:15 October 2024
Document type:Commentaries
Keir Starmer, only weeks in office as Prime Minister, hosted nearly 50 European leaders in July at the European Political Community (EPC) summit at Blenheim Palace.
The agenda had been set by his predecessor, Rishi Sunak, but Starmer stamped the event as his own. He signalled a decisive shift of UK policy towards Europe, seated President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on his right hand, and impressed European leaders with his pledge that the UK would never leave the European Convention on Human Rights…