Anand Menon and Katy Balls: EU unlikely to "give ground" over Brexit to Starmer

Via The Spectator: Keir Starmer’s plan to soften Brexit
Katy Balls writes this week’s cover piece on Labour’s plans to establish close ties with the EU. Every member of Starmer’s cabinet voted Remain, and the government is trying to ‘reset EU relations through a charm offensive’. Brussels figures are hopeful: ‘There was no real goodwill for the Conservative government.’
There are tests coming: the first deal, Katy writes, could be harmonisation on veterinary standards. But will the UK have to abide by the European Court of Justice?
Then there’s the issue of Chinese electric cars: will Starmer accept cheap imports, or follow the EU in raising tariffs on them?
For now, EU officials see the new PM as ‘workman-like and not playing to the gallery’.
How long will that last?
Katy Balls is joined by Anand Menon, director of the think tank UK in a changing Europe