Rachel Reeves sounds surprisingly perky. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has, of course, been forced \u2013 we may think, through gritted teeth \u2013 to say nice things she cannot possibly have believed about the Trumpian tariff programme that threatens to take a guillotine to her beloved fiscal headroom without her being able to do a damn thing about it. But, interviewed by the Times, she professed herself encouraged by better-than-expected statistics on consumer spending. And she also showed signs of doing something rather interesting, i.e. rolling the pitch for a bit of a climbdown on youth mobility.<\/p>\n
\u2018No plans for a youth mobility scheme\u2019 had been the line before the election. Now she says: \u2018We do want to see better trading relationships between our countries and we do want to enable young people from Europe and the UK to be able to work and travel overseas.\u2019 She\u2019s still having, it seems obvious, Herbert-Lom-in-Pink-Panther-style panic attacks at the thought of the Reform vote, so she caveats the thought immediately by saying, \u2018we\u2019ve got to get the balance right, because I do not want to see net migration increasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves sounds surprisingly perky. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has, of course, been forced \u2013 we may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56739,"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-56738","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\/114414154752889120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56738","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=56738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}