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🗓️ 2 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee Halshots, the Spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm Cindy Yu, and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
0:17.4 | Kirstama will meet with European leaders on Monday as part of his mission to reset the UK-EU |
0:22.6 | relationship. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper joined Sky News and reiterated Labour's red lines. |
0:28.6 | Does stronger cooperation with the EU mean, for example, a new customs agreement? |
0:36.6 | Well, we've always said that the red lines as part of that reset is no return to the |
0:42.9 | customs union, to the single market or to free movement. |
0:47.3 | And that remains the case. |
0:49.3 | So absolutely no movement on any of that. |
0:50.8 | Of course, what you want to do is to have, to get rid of some of the bureaucracy |
0:54.6 | around some of the customs arrangements as goods cross borders. |
1:00.0 | But that's about actually us reducing bureaucracy because, frankly, the deal that the previous |
1:06.7 | conservative government got actually was not a good one in terms of making sure we can reduce |
1:11.8 | the bureaucracy and help businesses train better. Well, let's test that out. How are you getting on |
1:18.6 | with negotiating a youth mobility scheme with the EU? Well, we've been clear that we need net migration |
1:24.1 | to come down. Under the Conservatives, net migration quadrupled in the space |
1:28.4 | of four years. That was the wrong thing for the UK. So we're clear that net migration needs |
1:34.2 | to come down. So that's why this is not an approach that we are looking for. So no youth mobility |
1:38.9 | scheme. That's not the right starting point for us at all, because what we need to do is to bring |
1:43.2 | net migration down |
1:44.6 | and we're clear that me has to mean for example recognising that it's work migration that |
1:50.1 | massively increased at the same time as training in the UK was plummeting that's really |
1:55.0 | damaging okay and I'm not entirely sure I got a clear answer to forgive me, I missed it, on a customs and arrangement. |
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