Government Told Parliament It Would Not Pursue EU Youth Mobility Scheme It Is Now Planning – Guido Fawkes

Government Told Parliament It Would Not Pursue EU Youth Mobility Scheme It Is Now Planning

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This morning’s Times reports that embattled Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is considering a ‘one in one out’ youth mobility scheme with the EU – whatever that means. It’s all spin, the scheme the EU is planning is simply free movement between the UK and EU for a certain category of people, along with the right to work…

Cooper has let it be briefed in primary colours to the paper of record that she is concerned about any scheme which lasts more than 12 months. Why? Not because of some substantive question over how this all might work – given sky-high levels of public concern about immigration – but because any arrivals under it would mess up the Home Office’s net migration figures – thereby banjaxing any Labour claim to be pursuing immigration control. In fact, the scheme will open the door to asylum claims from future EU member states like Albania and Serbia, and, with no effective border policing, overstayers will just end up in the UK as long as they like. It’s not all exchange students coming to learn about Shakespeare, this is an economic work visa programme…

The major Brexit reversal is likely to be forced on Starmer at next month’s EU-UK summit. Funny then that just last month, the government – in answer to a written question in the Lords – said it had “no plans” for youth mobility scheme. Labour is getting away with murder…