Monday briefing: Reports of late night breakthrough in landmark UK-EU reset deal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : " What about youth mobility? The EU has been very keen to strike an agreement on a "youth mobility scheme", a reciprocal programme that would offer visas to 18 to 30-year-olds to come to the UK from the EU, and vice versa, for work, study and travel.
64% : With these arrangements set to expire, the EU wants them extended.
63% : While landing deals with India and the US is still a huge win for Starmer, the EU remains the UK's largest and most important trading partner by some stretch.
62% : Today, Keir Starmer will meet with EU leaders at a crucial Downing Street summit.
56% : We dial it back down with the i paper: "Cheaper food and boost to trade - as UK agrees to follow EU rules in today's big Brexit reset".
55% : Today, as Starmer welcomes the European Council president, António Costa, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, to Downing Street, he will be keen to frame it as a pragmatic reset in the UK's relationship with the EU.
55% : While Starmer has said that making a deal with the EU would be "incredibly beneficial", others have gone further, saying that a reset in trade relations with the EU is crucial to the recovery of the UK economy.
51% : "Starmer came into power wanting a big reset with the EU, and I think this raised expectations from their side that they would make quite bold moves back towards Europe, but those expectations have so far been disappointed," she says.
50% : "The EU is the UK's biggest and important trading partner, so it is important to get the reset right even if none of the individual elements will make a dramatic difference to economic growth, which is the government's top priority," says Jennifer.
49% : "Taking back control of 'our' fishing waters was sold as one of the benefits of Brexit, so it's a sensitive issue for the government to cede ground on, especially with Reform UK looking over their shoulder," says Jennifer.
49% : "The idea of having an open-ended agreement with the EU where you could have thousands of young people coming to the UK every year, which they'd have to count in their immigration statistics, was just not flying with the Starmer government.
48% : Why is improving trade relations with the EU so important?
48% : One of the UK's key aims has been to sign what it frames as a "veterinary" deal removing some of the border checks and inspections on the movement of food, drink, animals and plants into the EU.
47% : But there has also been a view among senior EU diplomats that Britain is demanding concessions without offering anything in return.
44% : The EU wants a longer-term arrangement and has been frustrated that the UK is demanding a veterinary deal but won't reciprocate on fishing.
42% : After Brexit, many British fishers felt betrayed when Boris Johnson's government agreed to let EU fishing boats continue to access UK coastal waters until 2026.
40% : But progress towards a new agreement, providing the government with a third success after trade deals with India and the US, was complicated by frustration from EU diplomats at the UK's refusal to budge on its red lines around issues such as fishing rights and youth mobility.
38% : "On the other hand, the EU believe that without a longer-term deal, it would destroy European fishing industries.
36% : Fishing has always been a huge sticking point between the UK and the EU.
34% : Despite the government's red lines ruling out a customs union or rejoining the single market, the EU has complained that it does not really know what the UK wants.

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