Charlotte Gill
6 October 2025

Labour’s EU youth mobility scheme is a win for George Soros

Foreign funding is pushing us back into the EU

Last month it was announced that Labour would seek an “ambitious” youth mobility scheme with the EU. The policy will mean that hundreds of thousands of 18- to 30-year-olds from EU countries are eligible to work in the UK, and vice versa. In other words, exactly the same thing the UK had before it voted to leave the EU.

The Government’s new direction has largely been attributed to Rachel Reeves, who confirmed that ministers were working on the deal in her speech at the Labour Party Conference.

But in the background there has also been a great deal of lobbying for the policy, mostly by groups funded by US billionaire George Soros.