Keir Starmer was in Brussels last week to ‘reset’ the restive relationship. He received a warm reception. Based on my own experience – as a former EU trade negotiator and head of the EU delegation to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and United Nations in Geneva – the UK should propose the following package of negotiations: Harmonisation of customs’ IT systems (they are incompatible today) and alignment of the UK’s carbon border adjustment mechanism with that of the EU; Negotiations on mutual recognition of product certification (quite easy, since most approved certification bodies are multinationals present in both jurisdictions) and electricity markets integration; Relaxation of restrictions on cabotage (the right to fly or sail or drive your goods to multiple points in the territory of the partner); UK joining the multi-party interim arrangement (the new temporary dispute settlement court in the WTO, which the Tories turned their back on under US pressure); Pharmaceutical and chemicals recognition arrangements; A dialogue leading to recognition of professional qualifications notably legal, engineers, architects, construction; A strategic dialogue on digital and artificial intelligence, building on the G7 consensus.