UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer sealed a deal with European Union leaders that lays the ground for closer collaboration with the bloc, seeing the removal of the vast majority of border checks on food and agricultural goods.

Keir Starmer isn’t known as much of a gambler. The prime minister, a lawyer to trade, prefers to weigh up both sides of an argument before making a balanced judgment on his preferred course of action.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's much-touted EU reset deal has failed to secure a migrant-return agreement - the one thing many British voters want most. Despite recent tough rhetoric on immigration, the deal contains "nothing about a UK-EU migrant-return deal,