Keir Starmer said the UK has a "ambitious" plan to create a closer trading partnership with the EU because he believes the British public has begun with Brexit.

Before the UK EU summit, the Prime Minister urged people to "seek to look forward, not come back" as the country begins a new era with the group.

At the end of the week, Starmer reached a trade agreement with the United States and India, and he said the UK would be aligned with the EU on food standards and work more closely on law enforcement, and he would support a controlled youth mobility program.

This marks the beginning of a large political offensive by the government to explain the benefits of a close ties with the EU, some of the anxiety in labor about how British reforms will cope with this deal.

The EU began to feel frustration as the government was wary of its demand for reset in relations, partly due to election threats from Nigel Farage’s party.

The summit will be held in Downing Street, prompting some to speculate that it has shrunk after its coverage at Lancaster House. However, sources said this was "never big, only EU institutional leaders and British leaders".

"I am ambitious about what we can achieve there. I want to build a closer relationship in security, defense, trade and economics," Starmer told The Guardian in a boarding interview on boarding HMS St Albans during a visit to Norway.

"Mentality is important, and I think it's a common approach. Let's look forward to it, not come back. Let's realize that we are living in another world. We are in a new era of security and defense. Again, we are in a new era of trade and economy now.

“What President Trump does through his tariffs is the purpose, and we need to realize that the way we lower the barriers with like-minded partners is really important.”

Asked if he believes the public has started with Brexit and if the public will understand the benefits of his EU reset, Starmer said: “I think so.

"Because I think people are focused on how we move the economy. How do I feel better? How do we put more money into our public services, how do we protect my work? It's important to ask a question: Who is in your mind when you make a decision?"

The EU side has high hopes to establish a deeper relationship at the summit held in London on May 19.

However, some EU diplomats feared Britain's interest in a successful local election and responded to the concession through the exemption of the Indian government's national insurance to temporarily second it to the UK, which eased Britain's interest in closer transactions. One said: “Everyone is very sensitive about how closer relationships are built in the UK.”

Business leaders also worried about the results of the summit, saying they wanted to learn more quickly and more deeply about the growth losses caused by Brexit. One said: "The logic closer to the EU is not stencilable, but fears that politics will limit it."

The governor of the Bank of England said he hopes that Britain can "rebuild" trade relations with the EU after reaching a trade agreement with the United States. Andrew Bailey said it would be "helpful" to reverse the reduction after Brexit after the UK EU trade. The Budget Responsibility Office estimates that Brexit has reduced the long-term productivity of the UK economy by 4%.

Meanwhile, the government expressed willingness to pay for British companies to obtain EU defense spending plans, which, after the French resistance, obtained the EU's defense spending plans in the dispute over fishing rights.

"We are ready to pay a fair share, but we want to have a say in the plan while retaining UK intellectual property and export opportunities," Defence Secretary John Healey told the BBC.

Starmer said in an interview that he negotiated with the United States and India to ensure a "calm and pragmatic" approach to the trade deal will also reach an agreement with the EU.

Starmer travels to Ukraine, where he will join leaders from France, Poland and Germany in Saturday's "Willing Alliance" meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy to highlight their ongoing commitment to the country.

They called Russia with U.S. President Donald Trump to agree to a 30-day ceasefire and attend the negotiating table, the first time they and U.S. President Donald Trump have traveled to Kiev's four major defense powers together.

He said that the attitude of the government was compared with the Conservative government’s dealings with Brussels: “We will do this in a serious, pragmatic way, and we won’t get to the nearest microphone whenever there is a twist or twist in the negotiations.”

He supports EU Relations Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds, who publicly confirmed this week that the UK wants to establish a controlled youth mobility program with the EU. "We are pragmatists, and that's how we bring to these negotiations. We have red lines, but we are pragmatists," Starmer said.

But government sources have shown that even though part of the reset agreement was mentioned later this month, even if the youth mobility agreement was mentioned later this month, it will only be properly discussed later.

Starmer also suggested that the UK would be aligned with the EU in terms of food and other standards as part of the deal. "We don't want to lower the standards of food. We don't participate, nor compete in the standards," he said. "I think the British are proud of the high standards we have and we want to maintain those standards."

The Prime Minister also accepted that the European Court of Justice would play a role in resolving any disputes, just like the Northern Ireland border deals touched by Rishi Sunak. "The ECJ already has a role. Looking at the Windsor protocol already exists, I think most people think the Windsor framework is a step forward," he said.

He added that the UK is pushing for closer ties with the EU in terms of law enforcement.

"I do want to work more closely. I do want to make sure we get the best data sharing arrangements. I hope we can work with Europol and put ourselves in a position where the UK can lead investigations in the European monopoly. We are very good at that. So the ambitions there work as closely as possible."