Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet European Council president Antonio Costa as he continues efforts to ‘reset’ the UK’s relationship with the EU.

The prime minister’s meeting with Costa comes just days after Chancellor Rachel Reeves joined European finance ministers in Brussels.

Starmer and Costa are expected to meet in Downing Street on Thursday afternoon to discuss the prime minister’s hopes for a closer relationship with the EU after the acrimony of the Brexit battles.

Details of Costa’s trip to London were published on the European Council’s website.

On Monday, Reeves told her eurozone counterparts she wanted to ‘rebuild those bonds of trust that have been fractured in the last few years under the previous government and to show our friends, neighbours and allies in the EU that we want a reset of those relationships’.

As well as the post-Brexit relationship, the talks between Starmer and Costa could cover wider global issues including the situation in Syria.

source: PA

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