Fury as Labour’s new deal with the EU ‘will mean RETURN of freedom of movement by the back door’
BRITAIN’S new deal with the EU stinks and will mean the return of freedom of movement by the back door, critics have warned the PM.
Sir Keir Starmer will tomorrow host European leaders for a landmark summit in London where he will reverse large parts of the Brexit deal.
Crunch negotiations were going to the wire last night but the deal will include a youth mobility scheme which will let European under-35s live and work in the UK.
Britain is also poised to let European trawlermen fish in our waters for years to come and sign up to new EU rules.
It could mean UK taxpayers’ cash goes into parts of the Brussels budget.
Last night, Labour and Tory politicians warned the PM that his deal would “undermine and sabotage Brexit”.
Writing in The Sun on Sunday, Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel branded it the “great Brexit betrayal”.
She added: “Labour looks set to open our borders and start the process of reintroducing free movement by the back door with some form of youth mobility scheme.
A total waving of the white flag. Youth mobility is code for free movement
Jacob Rees-Mogg
“Labour’s plans are not about improving cooperation with our European friends and allies, they’re about surrendering control to them.”
Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “This deal stinks.
“A total waving of the white flag. Youth mobility is code for free movement.
“Why chain ourselves to the corpse of the EU?”
Labour MP Graham Stringer said: “I have concerns this undermines the referendum decision. We must not resile from the commitment we gave to honour it.”
Ending free movement was what the country voted for — including millions of Labour voters
Farage
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage added: “Ending free movement was what the country voted for — including millions of Labour voters.”
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said: “This isn’t a reset, it’s a surrender.”
Details of the EU deal are shrouded in secrecy as it is set to be inked tomorrow.
But The Sun on Sunday understands it will include a restricted youth mobility scheme — limited in terms of how many Europeans can come to Britain and how long they can live here.
A similar scheme in Australia lasts two years and is capped at 42,000 people.
And a fishing deal to let European trawlers catch cod in UK waters is set to last over five years, longer than previously thought.
In return, Britain wants to be able to bid for EU military and security contracts worth about £125billion.
But France is pushing for the UK to be cut out of most of it.
The UK will also sign up to EU rules on food so British burgers and sausages can be exported to the continent.
Sir Keir said: “First India, then the US. Tomorrow, we take another step forwards, with yet more benefits for the UK as the result of a strengthened partnership with the European Union.”
He added: “We have a red line in our manifesto.
“Youth mobility is not freedom of movement.”