LONDON

Efforts by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to reset the UK’s relationship with the EU lack “direction, definition and drive,” Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has said on Wednesday.

A report based on months of expert witness testimony found that a summit between the UK and the EU at Lancaster House last May had “substantially improved the overall political relationship” after years of Brussels-bashing by the Conservative Party.

However, it concluded that the UK “lacks clear strategic priorities," resulting in “the appearance that the EU has achieved more concrete progress towards their most pressing demands than the UK.”

“Sadly, we found that despite progress in some areas, the government’s reset is languishing, suffering from a lack of direction, definition and drive. It feels as though we are on a journey with no clear destination," Emily Thornberry, a Labour MP and chair of the committee, said in a statement.

“In many areas, the government has failed to provide timelines, milestones or priorities, and it does not appear to have an ambitious, strategic vision for the UK’s new relationship with the EU,” she added.

The report warned that unless the government sets out a clearer structure and vision with defined goals, it risks repeating “these mistakes” when it enters a second round of negotiations following another bilateral summit due to take place in early July.