Sir Keir Starmer is to be told to accept more than 70 million migrants by EU leaders in a fresh Brexit betrayal in just a few days’ time.
On Monday, the Prime Minister will head to Brussels for talks on a new UK-EU security deal – but as German ambassador Miguel Berger warned GB News last month, the continental bloc is set to issue a major demand of Britain in return.
The EU’s top brass are said to be preparing to demand Starmer submits to a youth mobility scheme granting 18-to-30-year-olds from across the 27-member-strong alliance the right to live and work in the UK.
Berger has vowed that free movement would form “an important element” of any deal, and had explicitly told GB News’ Political Editor Christopher Hope that “it will be included”.
The EU’s top brass are said to be preparing to demand Starmer submits to a youth mobility scheme
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Downing Street maintains it has “no plans” to open up Britain’s borders to the EU – despite Sir Keir Starmer’s much-hailed “relations reset” with the bloc.
But Labour minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has refused to rule out such a scheme, telling MPs he was “not going to give a running commentary”.
At the same time, Eurostat data from 2020 reveals that there were 73.6 million people aged 15-29 in the EU – more than the entire UK population.
Starmer has fielded calls to open Britain up to youth movement for some time.
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Starmer has fielded calls to open Britain up to youth movement for some time
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Last year, Mark English of European Movement UK said: “It is time for a grown up discussion, so the Government should reconsider its inexplicable hostility to a youth mobility scheme with the EU.
“After all, the UK has youth mobility schemes with 13 other countries – including Australia and Japan – so it makes sense to have one with our nearest neighbours and closest partners.
“Dismissing the idea of reciprocal youth mobility simply means letting down British young people who face all sorts of economic difficulties and have seen their horizons curtailed by Brexit.
“Young people want and deserve the chance to study or work in Europe. The Government owes it to them to make sure they get that chance.”
Maros Sefcovic has stressed that agreeing to youth mobility would represent membership of the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention (PEM) – which the EU is open to Britain joining
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And Brussels’s trade chief Maros Sefcovic has stressed that agreeing to youth mobility would represent membership of the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention (PEM) – which the EU is open to Britain joining.
But a Downing Street spokesman said: “The arrangement that’s been discussed is not a Customs Union.
“Our red line has always been that we will never join a Single Market, Freedom of Movement, but we’re just not going to get ahead of those discussions.”
