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.

EXCLUSIVE: Fleetwood in Lancashire use to have more than 120 trawlers now there are just two left and skippers fear Westminster is trying to force them out of business.

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.