So, this is pretty much my predicted best possible outcome from the Starmer-von der Leyen meeting. The reset is most definitively on. Though this does not mean negotiations would be easy. And glad to see those "diplomats" saying the UK needed to provide detail now were not correct.
It looks like the previous months of preparation are all more or less wasted: the deal is now to start from zero. It does not show a lot of urgency. Its looks more like a meeting readout between EU and (f.e.) Sri Lanka: bland, nice, but with limited effect.
What will happen next in UK-EU relations... read on. The TL:DR is that the two sides will agree the sequencing and packaging of different elements in time for the first formal summit. I'd like to hope they also start on a few areas but that might be optimistic. ecipe.org/publications...
Ten key points to negotiating the UK-EU relationshipEurope has been weakened by difficult UK-EU relations at a time of international challenge. Eight years after the Brexit referendum a new UK gover
It's started! Looks like a good, positive start.