Keir Starmer says he does not accept UK has to choose between US and EU – UK politics live
Prime minister says both US and Europe are important to UK as he holds press conference with Nato secretary general Mark Rutte
Keir Starmer’s dinner with EU leaders tonight will take place at the Palais d’Egmont, a 16th-century palace where Ted Heath signed the treaty taking Britain into the European Economic Community in 1972. Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, claims this is a deliberate attempt to humiliate him.
The EU has invited @Keir_Starmer to a leaders summit in the very building where Ted Heath signed away our sovereignty in 1972.
This is deliberate and humiliating.
Starmer has learned nothing from the Brexit vote and it will come back to bite the Labour Party.
That’s not something that we as government can tackle alone, although there’s a lot that we’re doing. It’s about that partnership between government schools and families. And after the pandemic, that increasing fracturing that we’ve seen – that’s why it’s been so important that we’ve reset that relationship between government and schools, and with the workforce, too.
In terms of what we’re doing at the moment, we’re investing more in mentoring and attendance support, working with schools that are not delivering what they should to drive up attendance rates.
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