Starmer hails 'important day' as UK and Spain agree deal

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Sir Keir Starmer welcomes Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to Downing Street, where the pair are to agree a new bilateral deal to remove border checks at Gibraltar. Starmer calls it a "very important day" for his government, praising the work done to secure the agreement and highlighting the close ties between the UK and Spain. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Pleasure to sit down with you today, it's great.

00:02And all the more so, because I could not believe that it's been seven years

00:06since there's been a Prime Minister-Prime Minister meeting here in Downing Street.

00:11So it is really good that we are able to have this meeting.

00:14I'm very pleased that it's you and me having this meeting after seven years

00:18because of the closeness of our friendship as well as the closeness of our countries.

00:23And we've got so much to talk about.

00:26Let's start with the people-to-people.

00:28The millions of people that come from my country to your country

00:32and all the business contacts as well.

00:36That people-to-people contact is incredible and really, really valuable.

00:41And then we've got trade.

00:42We've got a lot of defense work to discuss.

00:45Ukraine and the global situation.

00:46The terrible situation in Gaza.

00:51And, of course, we're here today to sign a bilateral agreement

00:55on the back of all the hard work we did on Gibraltar.

00:58So it really is a very important day for me and my government to welcome you here.

01:04And I'm much look forward to the discussions we'll have this afternoon.

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