Britain's new Labour-led government has vowed to improve ties with the EU, and a possible summit between the two sides is being floated.
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00:00Britain is back, that's the key message from the UK government and newly elected Prime
00:05Minister Keir Starmer. Over 45 countries are attending the informal European political
00:10community hosted in Oxford where issues of mutual concern are discussed. The UK says
00:16it's eager to shake off the image as a country which breaches international law and is in
00:21constant confrontation with its European partners.
00:26Britain is back here on the European stage today and I think you've already seen in the
00:30very early days of this government the Rwanda scheme has been scrapped. Our commitment to
00:36remaining signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights, which by the way Winston
00:40Churchill himself, we're here at his birthplace, Blenheim Palace, played such a part in actually
00:45creating in the first place. So yes, we are going to be a government that respects international
00:51law, a government that stands tall on the world stage and yes in respect of the Windsor
00:56framework our commitment is to implementing that and being, I'm not saying for a moment
01:01that we're always going to agree but we will always be a good faith partner. President
01:06Zelensky is here, are you confident that there is watertight support for Ukraine in the long
01:13haul by all your European counterparts and the UK? Well that's what I'm seeing in the
01:18room today, that's what I'm seeing when I hear President Zelensky speak in that extraordinarily
01:24powerful way. I could feel the sense of solidarity in the room when he was speaking and for us
01:29as a new government, we from opposition offered bipartisan support for Ukraine and we will
01:35continue to offer that support for as long as it takes. One of the other big topics is
01:39defending democracy. We have Viktor Orban here who is going to hold the next EPC. Is
01:44that problematic for you that he doesn't support Ukraine in any military way but then
01:48goes to Putin, he's someone who essentially sides with the opposition? Listen, we work
01:56with the world as we find it, it's a matter for other countries who their leaders are
02:02but that doesn't mean we won't continue to pursue our objectives and continue to do as
02:08we have been doing and Kyistarma has been doing so powerfully here today which is to
02:12build that coalition of support for Ukraine as wide as we possibly can and that's what
02:17we will continue to do.