Labour to seek joint declaration with EU on wide-ranging security pact

Exclusive: Foreign secretary says deal would allow UK work more closely with bloc on issues such as defence and energy

Labour is seeking an unprecedented joint declaration with the EU to usher in a wide-ranging security pact covering defence, energy, the climate crisis, pandemics and even illegal migration, the foreign secretary, David Lammy, has said.

As part of the new government's plan to reset its relations with the EU and bring an end to the Brexit era", Lammy told the Guardian that a broadly defined security deal would not undermine Labour's commitment to remain outside the EU's single market and customs union.