UK PM Starmer pledges 'ambitious' reset of relations with Europe during Berlin visit

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.