Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has given his strongest sign that a youth mobility scheme could be part of a new agreement with the EU.
Speaking to the Times before a summit on Monday between the block and the United Kingdom, he insisted that he would not be equivalent to a return to freedom of movement prior to Brexit.
While Sir Keir said it would be a “reciprocal” package in which young people could move abroad for up to two years, there are no specific details about the ages of those that could be eligible and if there would be an amazement in the numbers.
The leader of the Conservative Party, KEMI Badenoch, has described the possible scheme of the scheme as “free movement through the back door.”
“We are not against youth mobility schemes. We are against the migration schemes without limit,” he wrote in X.
Reform UK has echoed the thesis feelings. His vice president, Richard Tice, said earlier this week that this scheme would be “the thin end” for the free circulation of the EU.
Sir Keir has denied these accusations, saying that work work a “red line in our manifesto on freedom of movement” and that “youth mobility is not freedom of movement.”
An agreement is expected to be announced at the Monday summit, which will be carried out in Lancaster House in London.
Laura Kuensberg of the BBC has been told that it will only be a request in principle, not the final agreement.
She understands that the EU has been pressing for stays up to four years, while the United Kingdom is not contemplating more than one or two.
In new comments on Saturday night before the summit, Sir Keir said that “a strengthened association” with the EU “would be good for our jobs, good for our invoices and good for our borders.”
Before Brexit, young people in the United Kingdom had the right to travel and study freely, without a visa, in the rest of Europe and vice versa. A new agreement could see a return to a similar state of affairs.
The prime minister has indicated to the reciprocal youth mobility schemes (YMS) that the United Kingdom already has with people like Australia, where people between the ages of 18 and 35 can work in the countries of the other.
Currently, the United Kingdom offers visas that allow young people from 12 countries that are not from the EU, including Japan, South Korea and Uruguay, studying or working in the United Kingdom for the United Kingdom for two years. Those of Australia, Canada or New Zealand can extend in one more year.
These visas are subject to annual fees, ranging from 100 visas to Andorra to 42000 for Australia, with a hero of the tickets where they are excessive subcontractations.
The former Tory government last year rejected an EU offer that would have facilitated that people between 18 and 30 years study and work abroad following Brexit.
Work at that time said that “I had no plans for a youth mobility scheme” if he won the general elections.
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told the Newsnight program of the BBC on Friday that the current government was giving “mixed messages” and that Hey wanted to listen to him “speaking with one voice and say that they would like a youth mobility scheme.”
He said that such scheme would put the rocket reinforcements in London “, where there are lagoons in sectors that include hospitality, creative industries, health and social assistance.
Liberal Democrats have also welcomed the idea of a new form of youth mobility scheme, with Europe spokesman James Maccleary, qualifies it as a “welcome step in the right direction.”
He added: “This news is a ray of hope for young people who have bone so badly disappointed by Brexit. The government now needs to move on.”
The European Relations Minister of the United Kingdom, Nick Thomas-Symonds, publicly confirmed last week that the Government was considering establishing a scheme of youth mobility scheme as part of a new association agreement with the EU.
He told the Financial Times that “an intelligent and controlled youth mobility scheme Shema, of course, would have benefits for our young people,” he proved that the red lines of the government are respected.
When asked if the United Kingdom might consider in the future to the Erasmus Student scheme, Thomas-Symonds said they were not planning to do so, but added that the government “was always open to listen to EU sensible proposals.”
Universities and students that BBC has recently spoken that Brexit has made studying in the United Kingdom less attractive.
For example, since August 2021, new EU students have generally had to pay international rates and not qualify for registration fees.
In addition to youth mobility, problems such as fishing rights, the first, the first from Brexit, are also expected to discuss.
Sir Keir described the next conversations as a “really significant moment”, saying that they would help create greater wealth for the British.
“Nobody wants to face the last nine years and I think [the things] They will be more worried: will I be better? – That will be the number one test, “he said.
