
Britain will have to pay into the European Union’s budget under Sir Keir Starmer’s reset deal, it has emerged.
The Prime Minister was last night accused of handing a blank cheque to Brussels as part of his controversial post-Brexit agreement.
New EU documents reveal that as well as having to follow the same food standards and carbon market guidelines as the rest of the bloc, having left it five years ago, the UK will have to make as yet unknown financial contributions to their regulators.
And the papers, reported on by The Telegraph, also make it clear Britain won’t be able to make any changes to the rules.
Last night shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel said: ‘Keir Starmer has made Britain a rule-taker from Brussels, and British taxpayers will now pay into the EU budget. Labour does not stand up for Britain on the world stage.
‘They give away our money to foreign countries and allow them to make decisions about us.’
And deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice MP, said: ‘By signing this deal before even agreeing how much these payments will be, Starmer has effectively signed a blank cheque on the UK’s behalf.
‘We should not be paying into a club we voted to leave at all, of course. Starmer has betrayed his claims to respect the Brexit vote.’

The Prime Minister was last night accused of handing a blank cheque to Brussels as part of his controversial post- Brexit agreement

Last night shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel said: ‘Keir Starmer has made Britain a rule-taker from Brussels, and British taxpayers will now pay into the EU budget. Labour does not stand up for Britain on the world stage’
Details emerged in a European Commission paper on the terms of the deal agreed by Sir Keir in May, which will see Britain follow EU rules on food standards once more to boost cross-Channel trade. The UK and EU emissions trading schemes will also be linked to avoid new green taxes.
The paper states: ‘The UK should bear appropriate costs for participation in the common sanitary and phytosanitary area and for the implementation of the agreement to link the UK and the Union’s greenhouse emissions trading systems.
‘The UK should contribute financially to supporting the relevant costs associated with the Union’s work in these policy areas.’
It warns: ‘Neither agreement should give the UK the right to participate in the Union’s decision-making.’
It came as Germany’s Chancellor berated Britain for leaving the EU.
Speaking alongside Sir Keir at an Airbus plant in Stevenage, Friedrich Merz said: ‘It is together that we respond to the major challenges of our time.
‘The United Kingdom – and I personally deplore this deeply – decided to leave the European Union.’