Although May 19 might be the day Sir Keir embarked on his most brazen act of Brexit betrayal yet, many fear it is just the beginning

IT has been several years in the making but Sir Keir Starmer finally got his wish this week as he manhandled Britain into a miserable new era of meddling Brussels rule.

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With a stroke of a pen, he ensured a return to European Union regulations and interference which many voters hoped had been consigned to the dustbin of history.

The grinning Prime Minister proclaimed his reset deal a "win win" as he stood alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the UK-EU Summit.

The Daily Express should have been in London's Lancaster House to witness what critics called Sir Keir's Brexit "surrender".

But we were denied entry, refused accreditation due to "limited capacity" for an event that was attended by scores of media outlets from across the UK and the Continent.

Quelle surprise! It is somewhat ironic that the newspaper which led the victorious campaign to get Britain out of the EU - led by the late political journalist and politician Patrick O'Flynn, who died on Tuesday was not given the opportunity to scrutinise the Prime Minister.

There will be other opportunities. This was the first of what is to be an annual event, showing that Sir Keir has no plans to stop.

On Monday the Labour leader, who backed Remain then campaigned for a second referendum to overturn the Leave vote, agreed to restart payments to the EU budget which could run into hundreds of millions of pounds a year. To the fury of Britain's beleaguered fishermen, he caved in to French demands to allow access for EU trawlers to UK waters until at least 2038 - more than 20 years after the vote to take back control.

The agreement also paves the way for a "youth mobility deal" which could potentially grant 80 million young Europeans the right to live and work temporarily in the UK.

Unsurprisingly, Sir Keir's reset was met by a furious backlash. Critics said he had been "stitched up like a kipper" by Europe and his "sell-out" for smoother trade will crush the UK fishing industry, drive up immigration and cost taxpayers millions.