Andrew Marr Slates 'Ludicrous, Offensive And Unpatriotic' Brexit Backlash To New EU Deal
Prime minister Keir Starmer has said the agreement – which ensure closer ties with the bloc – will be 'good for our jobs, good for our bills and good for our borders'.
But the Tories have called it a Brexit 'surrender', while Reform UK's Sarah Pochin dubbed it a 'complete betrayal of Brexit' and Boris Johnson described it as a 'sellout'.
Their remarks were completely dismissed on Tonight with Andrew Marr, when the LBC presenter said: 'I don't get hot under the collar about much, but I'm getting hot this evening.
'It is at the ludicrous, offensive and unpatriotic language that's being thrown around by the Brexit right against this new deal with the EU.'
He said most of this rage comes down to Starmer's decision to extend the same fishing deal first struck by Johnson for another 12 years.
'This is a deal that should make the whole country better off, bring good industrial jobs, give us better energy security and in the shops, more choice and lower prices,' Marr said.
'It will make it easier – we hope – to get through passport controls and to do deals to help combat illegal migration.
'So – betrayal? Fishing accounts for 0.03% of our output and the deal will anyway make it easier for British fishermen to sell their produce abroad.
'Talking about surrender and betrayal is the language not of deal making but of war and that's deranged. We're not at war with the European Union and France, we have been negotiating with them.'
'The Brexiters have cost our economy – that is you and me – around 4% of our GDP according to the Office of Budget Responsibility.'
Comparing the war analogies used by the Brexit right to childhood comics, he said: 'Looking around me this evening, it seems to me that many of my fellow Britons haven't grown up by a day.'
Andrew Marr is "hot under the collar at the ludicrous, offensive & unpatriotic language that's being thrown around by the brexit right... talking about surrender & betrayal... is the language of war, & that's deranged..."#LBCpic.twitter.com/SD4GfCtTwZ
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) May 19, 2025
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