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Chancellor confirms government backing for UK-EU youth mobility scheme

Government
Gary Noakes
30 September 2025

Efforts to restore young UK nationals' right to work in the EU post-Brexit have been given a further boost following a speech from the chancellor.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves pictured in Newcastle
(Credit: Kirsty O'Connor / HM Treasury / Flickr)

Chancellor Rachel Reeves believes a youth mobility scheme with the EU is on the cards (Credit: Kirsty O'Connor / HM Treasury / Flickr)

Rachel Reeves told the Labour conference in Liverpool ministers were “working with the EU to secure for young people in Britain the maximum economic and cultural opportunities available through an ambitious agreement on youth mobility”.

Reeves said opportunities “cannot and must not be the sole preserve of the wealthy and the fortunate”.

Tour operators, and travel more broadly, lost the right to "post" workers such as reps and chalet hosts overseas in EU countries following Brexit, which did away with the free movement of labour between the UK and EU.