Labour<\/a> MPs believe the scheme could have helped Labour reach its plan to decarbonise UK power by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\nA senior Labour MP likened the scheme to a \u201csugar-rush, fast-fix\u201d solution that would be helpful to an incoming Labour government but would be hard to wean off. They said: \u201cEven though Labour has reduced its green objectives, it still wants to decarbonise the grid. There will be a time lag between training, recruitment and reskilling workers that would require an army of engineers for example to do that, and we\u2019re currently far behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo hit the ground running, this scheme offers us the opportunity to do that, but we would have to continue to fix labour market shortages.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Labour spokesperson said: \u201cThis is a proposal from the EU Commission to EU member states, not to the UK. It has come about because the UK government is reportedly approaching other European countries to try to establish mobility arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Labour has no plans for a youth mobility scheme. We have already suggested some tangible ways that we would look to improve the relationship and deliver for British businesses and consumers, including seeking a veterinary agreement to tackle trade barriers, mutual recognition of professional qualifications and improved touring opportunities for artists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anand Menon, a professor of European politics and foreign affairs at King\u2019s College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, said: \u201cClearly there is a debate to be had about the costs and the benefits of a youth mobility scheme, but I find it utterly depressing that both of the major political parties, one of which will form a government after the next election, do not know the difference between free movement and a limited youth mobility scheme which involves visas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said he suspected the surprise emergence of a youth mobility scheme was a move to head off cherry-picking in the EU in the face of a surge of far-right parties, some of which are Eurosceptics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey are scared that member states will do bilateral deals, which becomes more of a threat the better the Eurosceptic parties do in the elections,\u201d Menon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor instance, Geert Wilders [the Dutch populist politician] would be more likely to do a bilateral deal with Britain if it involves annoying Brussels, and then the danger is you end up with governments in the EU negotiating unilaterally with the Brits because it is in their own interests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u2019s surprise\u00a0proposal of a youth mobility scheme\u00a0for people aged between 18 and 30 on Friday, after Labour knocked back the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[8217,11967,75,5307,5268,1904,2512,8051,9088,8590,11399,10391,6576,10339,5196,911,10344,159,6621,9505,6564,5575,4028,2264,12634,11716,12773,1828,3684,10742,11140,12287,278,2402,5424,3805,3174,10313,7650,5266,5818,10851,8302,7836,5471,10329,12605,10412,10976,6238,6348,5647,6585,10044,10415,5140,5784],"class_list":["post-42256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-army","tag-bilateral","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-british","tag-brussels","tag-conservatives","tag-consumers","tag-container","tag-conversation","tag-debate","tag-declined","tag-democrats","tag-dutch","tag-economy","tag-election","tag-emergence","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-france","tag-freedom","tag-government","tag-health","tag-hospitality","tag-increase","tag-labour","tag-london","tag-market","tag-mobility","tag-movement","tag-mp","tag-mps","tag-politics","tag-president","tag-prime-minister","tag-professor","tag-recruitment","tag-rishi-sunak","tag-strike","tag-sugar","tag-sunak","tag-the-liberal-democrats","tag-tourism","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-uk-government","tag-ursula","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-us","tag-visa","tag-visas","tag-von-der-leyen","tag-work","tag-young","tag-youth"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42257,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42256\/revisions\/42257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}