Keir Starmer announced plans for a new treaty with Germany but insisted it would not mean reversing Brexit.
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00:00After years of tense post-Brexit bruising, leaders from Germany and the United Kingdom
00:08have announced plans to repair ties.
00:12German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and UK Prime Minister Kirsten Stammer announced a new agreement
00:17designed to strengthen science, tech, trade and security in Berlin on Wednesday.
00:24We don't want to leave it to confessions, but to put our relationship on a whole new
00:29foundation.
00:30In the coming months, we will work together on a contract that reflects the entire scope
00:36of our relationship.
00:38Scholz said this was an agreement reached between close partners and trusted allies,
00:45while Stammer billed the plan as ambitious.
00:48And that is what we are doing today.
00:50A new UK-Germany treaty.
00:54A once-in-a-generation chance to deliver for working people in Britain and in Germany.
01:03The leaders also spoke of establishing a joint action plan to tackle illegal migration.
01:09Security is high on Scholz's agenda after a terrorist with suspected links to the Islamic
01:14State killed three people in the German town of Zollingen.
01:20Stammer has made it clear his intentions to repair relations between Britain and the European
01:25Union since he won office at the July elections.