The United Kingdom that seeks to create the Youth Mobility Regime with the EU, according to the minister

Nick Thomas-Symonds, Minister of European Relations, has first confirmed publicly that Britain seeks to create a youth mobility scheme as part of a new “strategic collaboration” with the EU, which will be launched at a summit this month.

Days after Nigel Farage’s anti-eu reform of the United Kingdom gave a bloody nose to local election, Thomas-Symonds used an interview with the Financial Times to prepare for a politically controversial agreement with Brussels at a London summit on May 19.

The summit will agree with a new security and defense pact in the United Kingdom, increasing cooperation in hiring and training. But it will also be set in months of negotiations on a wide package of economic reforms and the creation of some kind of youth experience regime.

Thomas-Symonds, who headed the efforts of ministerial “reestablishment”, previously insisted that there was no “plans” for a youth mobility scheme, a key demand for the EU that would allow young adults from the Member States to study and work in the United Kingdom and vice versa.

But on Tuesday he said that whenever the red lines of the United Kingdom was respected, “a smart and controlled youth mobility scheme, of course, would have a profit for our young people.”

The ministers have privately stated that they will charge the numbers in any scheme and that the time limited, and Thomas-Symonds confirmed: “We consider the EU proposals sensitive in this space.”

He said that Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister, had made it clear that Britain would not return to free movement or join the Customs Union or the single market again. The government also pledged to reduce clean migration, he added.

But Thomas-Symonds said that Britain already had youth mobility agreements with countries like Australia and Uruguay, adding: “No one suggests any of these schemes, smart and controlled, this is freedom of movement.”

Thomas-Symonds also suggested that Britain would be ready to allow EU fishermen to continue enjoying the current access to the United Kingdom waters when a five-year agreement expires in 2026.

He said he should be part of a wider agreement to get easier access to British fishermen who sell their capture on the continent. “We are looking for a global agreement that is beneficial for our fishermen,” he said.

Thomas-Symonds opened the door to Britain, continuing to align with EU rules in eating standards and animal welfare, saying: “We are not interested in divergence by divergence or a background race according to standards.”

He also said that Britain was ready to accept a role for the European Court of Justice as part of an agreement to cut off the bureaucracy of cross trade. “Wait for a proper mechanism for dispute resolution,” he said.

Asked if he feared a reaction from the conservatives of Farage and Kemi Badenoch, Thomas-Symonds said he hoped to present the advantages of an agreement for voters, who rejected work and the Tories in local elections in England last week.

“I am not worried about selling something that we think would do the safest and more prosperous UK,” he said. “This is a package for which we have a strong mandate of the British. We have to go from the debates of the past; this looks forward. This is where the European continent is in the mid -1920’s, not where it was in 2016.”

Badenoch has already stated that a youth mobility agreement is at risk of creating “another way that people could use to play the system”, while warning that Starmer was about to “sell” British fishermen.

Following the benefits of reform last week, Thomas-Symonds’s comments are the prelude to an important Starmer political offensive and other ministers to explain why EU links will bring benefits to voters.

Thomas-Symonds repeatedly spoke of a “package” of reforms that he stated that he would be popular with the public, from cutting red tape to borders in order to reduce food prices to facilitate professionals or touring musicians to work on the continent.

In a defense agreement, he said: “At this time in European history it is not in the interest of the European continent to have fragmentation of our industrial defense capacity.”

Asked if at some point Britain could join the Erasmus student exchange program, Thomas-Symonds did not rule it out.

“We do not plan to return to Erasmus,” he said. “But we are always open to listening to EU sensitive proposals, but they must be within the frame we have exposed.”

He said that the closest links to Europe had to be “part of a package of national interest.”

London has refused to reduce university enrollment rates for EU students at the UK levels, and any change to this policy would be a considerable price. In the last 7 -year -old Erasmus cycle, the United Kingdom contributed € 2 million more than it received because more EU students used it than the British.

Additional reports for Andy Bounds in Brussels