Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman,

and this is the Sunday Roundup. The government is currently in the final hours of negotiations

with the EU over a new deal that Keirirstama has said will create a strengthened partnership with the bloc.

The specifics of the deal are not yet revealed, but it is thought that a youth mobility scheme is on the table.

On the BBC this morning, Laura Koontzberg asked Minister for European Relations, Nick Thomas

Simmons, if some people might feel betrayed by the New Deal.

Will it be easier for European young people to come and live and work and study it in the

UK and vice versa?

Because some people are excited about this, some people are anxious about this, that unless

you can reassure them today

that people coming here would be tightly limited with perhaps a time or a cap on the numbers,

then people will feel you've let them down. That is betraying what they voted for in Brexit.

Well, absolutely not. It's about a smart and controlled scheme. And as of today, we have already 13 youth mobility schemes with other countries.

Nobody is remotely suggesting that that is freedom of movement with those countries.

It absolutely isn't.

And that is a red line for us, by the way.

We've said we won't go back to the single market.

We won't go back to the customs union.

We won't go back to freedom of movement.

That is the mandate we were elected on. But does smart and controlled mean a time

limit and a Kepo numbers? Is that the translation of that in brass tax? Well, listen, it is not

going to be in the British national interest for me to start negotiating this across your show

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