WATCH: Sir Jake Berry claims Keir Starmer has 'no mandate' for new EU deal
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May 20, 2025
Former Conservative Party Chairman Sir Jake Berry demanded an apology from commentator Benjamin Butterworth as the pair descended into a bitter row over Brexit.Delivering their verdicts on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's 'reset' deal with the EU, Butterworth took aim at the previous Conservative Government's agreement and claimed that the numbers when it comes to fishing rights "are the same".FULL STORY HERE.
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Let's look at the reality
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What have they got to be happy about? Sir Jake, when he takes a breath, will remember that the numbers that are going to go forward
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for the next 12 years of how much EU can fish in our waters is just the same as it was
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under Boris Johnson's deal. The difference is that it would have come up for a renewal every 12 months
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Which would have expired in a matter of months. And that would be a hell of a situation. And let's look at the reality
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Hang on, before you move on and just shrug that off, which would have expired in a matter of months? Yes, and have to renegotiate it
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So as the only person sat round this sofa who actually negotiated Britain's Brexit deal
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I was in the Cabinet at the time, that was a high price that we paid as a transition period
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which would see Britain get its Brexit deal through. This has now been given away for 12..
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He's got no mandate to do that. 12 years. That's longer than even Tony Blair was Prime Minister of a country
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It's three parliaments. It's three parliaments. Sorry, Benjamin, continue your point. Thank you. Well, first of all, the Boris Johnson deal put a border down the North Sea and handed Northern Ireland to the EU
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So I don't think that's less of a concession. The Theresa May deal collapsed a government which caused years of turmoil, nearly let Jeremy Corbyn become prime minister
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I don't think that was an acceptable concession. Now, actually, 70 percent of our fish is sold into the EU
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And what these changes do is make that easier for them to sell their produce. And what we got is so much less red tape Conservatives should appreciate this that what businesses have been saying for years small businesses and big ones is that the amount of red tape and the amount that that slows down getting products across the border if they can at all has cost billions Why is that red tape there Why are the EU so vindictive to include all that
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Because we left the EU and put up loads of barriers. No, the EU put up loads of barriers. That's their right to do because we were outside their economic agreements
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And so the fact is that, you know, the fishing industry brings in about, makes about £3 billion a year
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This will make triple that for the UK economy. And when you've got companies like Marks and Spencer
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that had to cease trading in France because it couldn't get things across the border fast enough
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how is that helping British workers? How do we deal with the fishing industry then? Because they're getting shafted, there'll be no-one to replace them
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It will die, just like farming will die. I mean, you said it in your intro, you know
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The older generation now, they will die. Maybe their sons and daughters may not go into it because of this
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But, you know, the thing is, I don't get Starmer. You know, it's like he wants to be chucked out of power
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You know, today he just gave reform a standing start to win the next election
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Farage has already said, you know, I will reverse all of this if you make me Prime Minister
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I will kick it all out, make me PM. And people, I mean, I've been reading online today
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you know, families who have voted Tory for years have just said, that's it now, we're going for reform
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Not going wrong, because the Tories are a busted flush as well. So people are now going to vote for reform
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You the people that wanted no deal at all that would have collapsed the UK economy But Benjamin Benjamin is why If Brexit was so good then why are food prices up
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Why is immigration up? Why is energy prices up? Why are there economies in the toilet
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Yeah, I mean, you've asked me seriously, food prices are up. Well, as far as I'm aware, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal haven't left the European Union
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And their food prices are up more than ours. As far as I'm aware, France, Germany, Portugal haven't left the European Union
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They're suffering with migration in the same way. But our prices have gone up. They've got no, no. But Benny, you're completely wrong
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Prices have gone up across the European Union because of Covid. It's nothing to do
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You know, the correlation between food prices going up is not the same thing as causation
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Food prices have gone up because of Ukraine and Brexit. And actually, do you know, you say big business welcomes this
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Of course they do. Big business always welcomes uncontrolled migration to the country
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because it's a lot cheaper to give an immigrant a job than it is to train a British person
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You're saying those companies that can no longer send British products to the EU, they should be having with that scenario
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The problem Keir Starmer has with this, and he has no mandate to do it
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is that he entered the negotiations saying, whatever you say, I won't walk away from the table
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At least with the no-deal Brexit, you say, oh, you wanted a no-deal Brexit
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No, we didn't want a no-deal Brexit, but we were prepared to hold it over the head of the European Union to get the right deal for the British people Starmer has just surrendered The deal we got on fish is the exact same number that Sir Jake government got For 12 years
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Do you not get that this is a betrayal of democracy? People voted to leave the European Union and now we're going to be going back
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Benjamin, Labour got a lower vote share than Corbyn. It was a loveless landslide, as it's been described
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Comparing that to 17.4 million people who voted Leave, the biggest... You just spat on all the people there
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..the biggest Democratic vote in the history of this country, which has never, even by your government, Sir Jake, I'll say that
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which has never been carried out because there's been not a genuine Brexiteer anywhere near government or in Parliament
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We've never had a majority Leave Parliament. You had Liz Truss. Liz Truss
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Yeah. You had Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, OK? And she was shafted by the establishment
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Two ardent Brexiteers and one person who actually voted... No, actually, that is a really good point
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This project to force Britain back into the EU is bigger. I want to hear from Sir Jake
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Ben, I think you should apologise for interrupting me, but let's not make a point of it
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But actually, this project to force Britain back into the EU is actually bigger than Keir Starmer
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He's the useful idiot who's done the establishment's work for him. But never forget that London, North London, the establishment
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don't like the fact that people across Britain, in coastal communities who'll be decimated
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like Blackpool and other coastal communities, had the pluck to stand up for their nation
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Exactly. Keir Starmer's knocking you right back down. How dare
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