Nana Akua has slammed Labour's proposed "one in, one out" youth mobility scheme with the EU, saying "they can't even stop the dinghies crossing the channel".Her comments come as reports suggest Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is warming to the proposal.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00Brexit's never very far away from British politics.
00:03It's always there in the background.
00:04There's a drumbeat now, building Nana towards this summit
00:07between Sir Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen next month.
00:11They met, didn't they, yesterday?
00:13You saw those clips. They got on very well.
00:15That's all about laying the ground.
00:17Now, this government tells us they won't do this triple lock on Brexit,
00:22they might call it.
00:23My words, not their words.
00:24But they don't want to get back to a freedom of movement
00:25or the customs union or the single market, those three things.
00:29But around the edges, there might be some changes,
00:33particularly on the issue of 18 to 30s.
00:35Should they be allowed freedom of movement going backwards and forwards
00:38really to help the hospitality industry
00:40and maybe some form of studying and tutoring?
00:44And what are the terms of that?
00:45Will young people have to pay their £600 a year to use the NHS,
00:49which is the NHS surcharge, or not?
00:52One in and one out, it looks like an idea which Yvette Cooper is quite keen on.
00:57She's very against anything which may swell the net migration figures.
01:01I can see you're shaking your head there, Nana.
01:03But the idea of one in, one out means there's a kind of revolving door.
01:07So as we take a young person from the European Union,
01:10we can send a Brit over there.
01:12And again, you're shaking your head.
01:13I can't even see how they're going to manage this.
01:18So how do you create a structure that enables one in, one out?
01:21How are you going to do that?
01:22They can't even manage people coming here via dinghy across the channel.
01:27They were processing people really slowly.
01:29How are they going to?
01:30Where's the manpower to process them one in, one out thing?
01:33I don't know yet.
01:35Thank you for asking the question.
01:36I'm not in government, but I don't know yet.
01:37I think they are nervous about the net migration figure that will come down,
01:41we're told by the prime minister, not to a figure which is anywhere below
01:44probably what happened in the past 10 years.
01:46It won't be as high as nearly a million who came in the last year.
01:50Today in Downing Street, the government has changed its tune on Brexit.
01:53I want to read to you what the spokesman has told us.
01:56He says this.
01:57This is not about returning to the EU, OK, but we will not be defined by the argument of the past.
02:03That is so important, I think.
02:05The PM has been clear about the benefits of a better relationship with the European Union,
02:09a better relationship that can unlock the benefits for Britain's British business.
02:13So clearly they want to get a lot closer on areas like phytosanitary and other trading areas involving food.
02:19And we heard overnight from Rachel Reeve speaking to the BBC.
02:22She suggested that the EU is arguably more important as a trading partner than the US.
02:28Now, number 10 wouldn't go there.
02:31They see it as a kind of false choice between two big trading partners.
02:35But I think Brexiteers worried about Brexit and what they believe Brexit is will be alarmed by this.
02:41But I think at the heart of it, the sovereignty issue, which is the core of Brexit, that's not changing.
02:45So, let's see.