Lee Anderson has delivered a brutal slap down to the Prime Minister with a two-word swipe. He was responding to Keir Starmer hosting the first UK-EU summit since Brexit this week, hoping to “reset” the relationship.

The Government has been working on an agreement with the EU, including defence, security, food, and fishing. It is also expected to announce a scheme which allows young Europeans to study and work in the UK. But the Reform MP for Ashfield believes this to be a bad idea, saying on X (formerly Twitter): “Brexit Betrayal.”

He added: “Sir Keir Starmer went to the Single Market and came back with five magic beans. Even his own MPs are starting to turn on him. How much more damage will he do?”

His supporters took to the replies to back his statement. One said: “If this happens, Starmer will achieve Labour becoming unelectable at next GE.” And another added: “Yet another disgusting betrayal of our country!”

But not all in the replies agreed. One user said: “It gets under your skin that he reverses some of the bad elements of Brexit? In your view, there were only good elements, not bad?”

Despite Anderson’s anger, public support for Brexit has dwindled since the 2016 referendum. A YouGov survey from earlier this year found just 30% of Brits think it was right for the UK to leave the EU. Almost two-thirds (62%) say Brexit has gone badly.

Baroness Hoey accused the Prime Minister of “fanaticism” for the European Union. She told The Telegraph: “He will pay the penalty in Labour areas where he seems to think that Labour voters have kind of given up on Brexit, which is not in the slightest bit true.

“We should make our own rules and then, if we want to have agreements with the EU, we do it without any sign-up to their laws and their courts because otherwise in the future – once you do this – we’re subject to any change that they wish to make.”