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Rachel Reeves<\/a> is pushing for a more ambitious deal to unpick the harm Brexit <\/a>did to the prospects of young people in the UK.<\/p>\n

The chancellor has revealed she wants to have \u201can ambitious youth experience scheme\u201d to allow mobility for under-30s<\/a> in and out of the UK, a move which she claimed would reduce the need for tax rises in the forthcoming budget. <\/p>\n

It would mean young people from the UK could go to live and work in the EU on temporary visas while young people from the EU would enjoy the same privilege the other direction.<\/p>\n

\"ChancellorChancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves (right) speaking at the Global Progress Action Summit at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster (Stefan Rousseau\/PA) (PA Wire)<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of the Labour conference, Ms Reeves told The Times she believes it could boost economic growth and is hoping that the Office for Budget Responsibility will score its impact before the Budget.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cWe have agreed as a government that we want to have an ambitious youth experience scheme to allow young people in Britain to be able to go and work, to travel, to volunteer, to gain experience, to learn languages in European countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we want young people from those European countries to also be able to come to the UK and have the same opportunities that my generation had to travel and work and study in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also want the OBR to score that because when we left the European Union, the OBR said that our economy would be 4 per cent smaller as a result. As a result of that reset in May, we think the economy will be stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the move would be seized on by the likes of Nigel Farage and Reform UK as a Brexit betrayal encouraging yet more immigration to the UK, a recent poll published by The Independent showed even Reform supporters back the scheme.<\/p>\n

According to the YouGov findings in August<\/a>, 76 per cent of those asked support the scheme, compared to only 13 per cent who are opposed.<\/p>\n

This included 55 per cent of Reform UK (previously the Brexit Party) voters who want a permanent youth mobility scheme for young people in the UK and Europe to be put in place with just 34 per cent opposing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, her intervention has come as a new poll by YouGov for best for Britain has revealed majority (56 per cent) of people who voted Labour in July last year have said they think the UK is heading in the wrong direction – with over 3-in-5 (61 per cent) of these voters who think this way pinning the blame on Brexit.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Labour\u2019s 2025 party conference, the poll of more than 4,000 people found that the electoral coalition that swept the party to power just fourteen months ago blames Brexit for where it’s all gone wrong.<\/p>\n

Top words associated with Brexit were sad, frustrated, and annoyed.<\/p>\n

The youth mobility scheme was part of the discussions of Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s Brexit reset earlier this year but details are still being thrashed out.<\/p>\n

It would be based on existing schemes such as the ones with Australia, Canada and New Zealand where a limited number of visas are issued to 18 to 30-year-olds for up to two years to live and work in the other country as long as applicants have savings of at least \u00a32,530.<\/p>\n

Some have described it as the “au pair visa\u201d because of the drop in the number of au pairs in the UK since leaving the EU.<\/p>\n

Others have described it as the \u201crestaurant and bar visa\u201d because of the shortage of available workforce in the hospitality industry since Brexit.<\/p>\n

Tom Brufatto, director of policy at the pro-EU Best for Britain, said: \u201cA deal on youth mobility creates new opportunities for young UK and EU citizens alike, as first proposed by the UK Trade and Business Commission in 2021, and, as Best for Britain\u2019s polling found earlier this year, is favoured in every constituency in Great Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, shadow Tory chancellor Sir Mel Stride said: \u201cWhen the Chancellor is reduced to begging the OBR to score a yet to be clarified youth mobility scheme, to scrabble together a few hundred million at best, it shows just how desperate things have become. <\/p>\n

\u201cBritain faces a massive fiscal black hole of Rachel Reeves\u2019 own making. No amount of creative accounting can cover for the fact that her reckless borrowing has put us in this position. <\/p>\n

\u201cRachel Reeves has already raised taxes by \u00a340 billion a year. Despite saying she wouldn’t come back for more, the Chancellor’s reckless economic mismanagement means more painful tax rises loom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-455431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115276485330016519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}