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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O'Carroll, Aletha Adu and Rowena Mason

Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK

Rishi Sunak speaking at a podium
Rishi Sunak. The UK government indicated that Brexit had ended free movement and that it had no desire to reopen that conversation. Photograph: Yui Mok/Reuters

Rishi Sunak has rejected an EU offer to strike a post-Brexit deal to allow young Britons to live, study or work in the bloc for up to four years.

The prime minister declined the European Commission’s surprise proposal of a youth mobility scheme for people aged between 18 and 30 on Friday, after Labour knocked back the suggestion on Thursday night, while noting that it would “seek to improve the UK’s working relationship with the EU within our red lines”.

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