The government is currently in the final hours of negotiations with the EU over a new deal that Keir Starmer has said will create a ‘strengthened partnership’ with the bloc. The specifics of the deal are not yet revealed, but it is thought that a youth mobility scheme is on the table. On the BBC this morning, Laura Kuenssberg told Minister for European Relations Nick Thomas-Symonds that some people might feel betrayed by the new deal. Thomas-Symonds told Kuenssberg that it would include a ‘smart and controlled scheme’ and that going back to freedom of movement was a ‘red line’ the government would not cross. The minister claimed the new deal would be ‘absolutely consistent’ with the government’s goal of bringing net migration down, and suggested they wouldn’t discount students in immigration statistics to meet their targets.
Thomas-Symonds: ‘It’s about making Brexit work’
Over on GB News, Camilla Tominey pointed out to Thomas-Symonds that himself and Starmer had previously campaigned for a second Brexit referendum, and asked if he really knew ‘what’s in the national interest’.
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