{"id":99762,"date":"2025-05-14T03:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T03:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99762\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T03:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T03:37:15","slug":"europe-minister-wont-reveal-brexit-reset-plans-until-key-date-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99762\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe minister won’t reveal Brexit ‘reset’ plans until key date | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keir Starmer\u2019s Europe Minister has refused to deny the Government is caving in to EU demands for a youth mobility scheme<\/a>, saying he will not \u201cpre-empt\u201d announcements to be made next week. Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds was responding to Conservative Party calls not to \u201crow back on Brexit<\/a>\u201d ahead of a joint summit between the UK and EU in London on May 19. It will mark the start of Sir Keir\u2019s efforts to \u201creset\u201d relations with the EU.<\/p>\n

Mr Thomas-Symonds, whose responsibilities include the Constitution and European Union<\/a> Relations, insisted Labour will not reintroduce freedom of movement, the customs union or single market with the European Union<\/a>. But supporters of the youth mobility scheme, which could mean people aged 30 and under from across the EU have the right to work in the Uk for four years, say it is not the same as freedom of movement.<\/p>\n

He told MPs: “With negotiations ongoing, they go back to re-hash the arguments of the past. No analysis as to where the United Kingdom\u2019s interest lies in the mid-2020s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey simply don\u2019t believe in Britain\u2019s ability to win. Perhaps that\u2019s no surprise given the 14 years of failure they delivered for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservative shadow Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart said the party needed to give clarity on whether it would pursue a youth mobility scheme<\/a> while the Liberal Democrats\u2019 Europe spokesman James MacCleary said the party should sign the agreement to give young people greater opportunities.<\/p>\n

Mr Burghart said: \u201cWhat we\u2019re asking today is for the Labour Party to set out what its clear position is and I\u2019ll explain in a moment why that\u2019s very important. The fact is that what we\u2019ve seen up until this point is chaos in these negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy for the Labour Party to understand, because on the 24th of February we\u2019ll have heard the Home Secretary rule out a youth mobility deal. You\u2019re not going to do it, not looking into it. But then at the beginning of March, the Paymaster General (Nick Thomas-Symonds) in a Westminster Hall debate suggested that he was open to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then on the 24th of April the Paymaster General again ruled it out. But then at the beginning of May the Paymaster General, once again, ruled it in.\u201d<\/p>\n

One Labour MP has called for a \u201ccapped, controlled, balanced youth mobility scheme\u201d. Tom Hayes told the Commons: \u201cOn that question of expanding opportunities within the UK-EU relationship, I\u2019m particularly struck by the need for a capped, controlled, balanced youth mobility scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cAround our country, in my constituency of Bournemouth East, we have young people who are suffering generational challenges that their predecessors did not face, be it their inability to buy a home at an affordable amount, be it their inability to have secure work, be it their inability to get the education that they want, be it the fact that they\u2019ve gone through a cost of living<\/a> crisis and a pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurely, we owe it to our younger generation to provide them with some of the conditions that will allow for a better life, and a capped, balanced, controlled youth mobility scheme<\/a> is key to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Hayes said a youth mobility scheme would be \u201cnot just beneficial for the youth of the UK\u201d but also for English language schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this is critical,\u201d Mr Hayes continued, adding: \u201cWe are living in an insecure world.<\/p>\n

\u201cBritain\u2019s soft power is so critical to ensuring that we are respected around the world. By bringing people to the UK and particularly to sunny Bournemouth for one to two weeks or four to six weeks before they go home, they get a sense of how wonderful, how open, how accepting we are as a country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer\u2019s Europe Minister has refused to deny the Government is caving in to EU demands for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,43523,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,810,11508,16,16235,25847,15,25849],"class_list":{"0":"post-99762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-news","10":"tag-brexit-reset","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-nick-thomas-symonds","18":"tag-politics-section","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-uk-politics-section","21":"tag-uk-eu-relations","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-youth-mobility-scheme"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114504102568136858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99762","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=99762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}