All options for EU reset have trade offs as well as benefits. We won’t have many chances to get right and nor is it solely our choice! With problems Brexit causing service as well as manufacturing sectors, this from @labour4europe.bsky.social points way to Switzerland ukandeu.ac.uk/thinking-swi...

“Exporters continue to struggle with post-Brexit trade barriers, and do not feel the TCA is enabling them to grow.” Read the full British Chambers of Commerce report on the EU reset below.

Rejoining the Erasmus+ scheme will allow young people of all backgrounds to take up opportunities across the continent. Watch Rosie Wrighting MP, James Naish MP and Chris Vince MP note the benefits Erasmus+ will have for employability of young people.

“As one of the first in my family to go to university and as a carer for my mother, I didn’t study abroad. Erasmus was the first time I was able to experience that.” Watch Florence Eshalomi MP, @helenhayes.bsky.social and @PhilBrickellmp.bsky.social discuss how they gained from EU youth mobility.

📉 Lower energy costs 🌱 Less reliance on imported Russian gas Watch @mike-reader.bsky.social discuss the opportunities of better UK-Europe energy trading with experts, Susie Elks from @e3g.bsky.social, Tom Edwards from @cornwallinsight.bsky.social and Professor Michael Grubb from @ucl.ac.uk.

✍️ @stellacreasy.bsky.social on why the EU reset needs “major surgery” and what Labour should do:  - Commission a Brexit impact analysis chaired by external experts - Offer the EU “more for more”, with nothing off the table - Put a mandate for a new relationship in the next manifesto

For the 16,000 businesses that have now given up trading with Europe because of paperwork, prospects remain bleak unless the government stops offering a sticking plaster and starts major surgery on our future with Europe‘ how we can make progress on Brexit.. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain is stuck with a failed Brexit that neither citizens nor leaders want. Here are three ways to fix that | Stella Creasy

A door is opening on Brexit. Here's how Labour can change course. ✍️ @stellacreasy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Join us to help make it happen! www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

A youth mobility scheme with the EU will grow the economy and enrich our cultural ties with Europe. Watch @chelfulhamben.bsky.social asking the Government what progress they are making on youth mobility negotiations with the EU.

“We must continue to play a role in European security.” @andrewcooper.net asks the Government on their plans to work with our European partners after the breakdown of talks on the EU SAFE defence fund.

"An unparalled act of economic self-harm." Watch @gareththomasmp.bsky.social on: 📉 Brexit's damage to tax revenues, jobs, and family finances 🤝 why the 2026 UK-EU summit should aim for "a more profound reset" 💼 practical steps to cut Boris's Brexit red tape on trade

“We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU.” Keir Starmer on the economic impacts of Brexit. Read more in Politico below: www.politico.eu/article/uk-p...

“If we can get cheaper food, boost growth and create jobs by having a closer relationship with the EU, we should.” - PM Keir Starmer www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Join the Labour Movement for Europe today to help us continue rebuilding our relationship with the EU. labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

“The swiftest way to achieve growth is for the government to be even more ambitious in negotiating with the European Union.” Watch as Ben Coleman MP asks the Prime Minister about his plans for cutting the red tape holding British businesses back.

Those Reform plans in full: - Torpedo our largest trading relationship - ⁠Leave millions of EU citizens in limbo - ⁠Sell out Brits living abroad - ⁠Spend years negotiating another Brexit mess Thanks Nigel 👍 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Join @labour4europe.bsky.social before Thursday for our seminar on Brexit and the budget - a Stanford study shows it's hit our productivity, our growth, employment and investment. We will chew over with Rachel Blake and Will Hutton what Labour can do next. www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

"Brexit and the Budget: What should Labour do?" Join us this Thursday evening for a members' discussion event with Will Hutton, @rachelblakemp.bsky.social and @stellacreasy.bsky.social. Not an LME member? Join today to take part: www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

🚨📉 Major new paper by Stanford professor Nick Bloom and coauthors. They find Brexit has: ⬇️ Reduced UK GDP by 6-8% ⬇️ Reduced investment by 12-18% ⬇️ Reduced employment by 3-4% ⬇️ Reduced productivity by 3-4%

The fundamental purpose of the ECHR is to protect people from governments of all colours. - @stellacreasy.bsky.social

"This is something Britain was involved in at the start - it is not a foreign imposition. It plays an important role in the life of the British people." FCDO Minister Stephen Doughty on why the UK will not be leaving the ECHR, at today's debate secured by @cateccles.bsky.social

"The Reform and Tory policy of ECHR withdrawal is simply, I'm afraid, Brexit 2.0 and isolationism." @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social on why we need the ECHR to manage our borders.

British businesses need help now with the mess Brexit has created - Here’s one clear way we can help cut paperwork, save jobs and rebuild our trading relationship with our neighbours now so they have a future at all. Join us in the @labour4europe.bsky.social to actually make a difference on Europe.

"The long-term impact of Tory austerity, their botched Brexit deal and the pandemic on Britain's productivity is worse than even we feared.” –Keir Starmer Join the Labour Movement for Europe to fight for our future with Europe. labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

Join the Labour Movement for Europe to help us make sure we don't make the same mistake of Brexit again www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

"The real danger to border control and public security here, is leaving the ECHR." –George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally. @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social @soclablaw.bsky.social

"The reason why the reactionary right hate the ECHR is because it gives ordinary citizens the right against the secretive and authoritarian state that they want." –George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally. @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social

The reason why the ECHR matters in under two minutes from the society of labour lawyers …

“Austerity, a chaotic Brexit and the pandemic have left deep scars on the British economy that are still being felt today.” Read more from Rachel Reeves here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tomorrow Nigel Farage is proposing a bill to take the UK out of the ECHR. Not content with messing up our future with Brexit, he’s at it again. Don’t let him get away with it. Ask your MP to join us in @labour4europe.bsky.social saying not this time Nigel.

There’s a small window of opportunity in the coming months to go further and faster fixing our relationship with our European counterparts that Farage and co broke - so if you recognise that matters too then it’s time to join us in @labour4europe.bsky.social ! www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

"In Spanish, the word compromiso means both compromise and commitment. We need a commitment to compromise." –Sir Chris Bryant MP, Minister of State for Trade Policy, speaking at out conference rally.

"The reason why the reactionary right hate the ECHR is because it gives ordinary citizens the right against the secretive and authoritarian state that they want." –George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally. @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social

'We chose to break that cycle, not with shouting slogans from the sidelines, but with solutions." –Nick Thomas-Symonds, Minister for EU Relations, speaking at our conference rally.

"The real danger to border control and public security here, is leaving the ECHR." –George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally. @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social @soclablaw.bsky.social

"We've been really harmed by Brexit as an industry." –Naomi Pohl, General Secretary of the Musicians' Union, speaking at our conference rally. @naomipohl.bsky.social @wearethemu.bsky.social

“We are already now a target of hybrid aggression.” —Thomas Vaupel, Deputy General Secretary of the Party of European Socialists, speaking at our conference rally. @pes.eu

🚨 Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP to @samcoatessky.bsky.social: “There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long-lasting”

"The European Union, at its core, is the most fundamental peace and security pact." – Calvin Bailey MP, Member of the Defence Select Committee, speaking at our conference rally.

“Nigel Farage has been surprisingly quiet about the trade relationship we now have with Europe.” –Yuan Yang MP (@yuanfenyang.bsky.social), Member of the Treasury Select Committee, speaking at our conference rally.

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers. Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

🚨 New polling from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social and @politico.eu: 63% of Brits support following EU rules in order to get rid of red tape on trade in food and drink, with only 22% opposed. 50% of Leave voters are in favour. Read more: pro.politico.eu/news/205735

“It makes the economics of touring almost impossible.” — @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social on the need for a 🇬🇧🇪🇺 deal to help emerging British artists tour in Europe again.

“The first trade deal in history that made trade harder” 📉 Exports down nearly 20% 🛑 16,000 firms giving up exporting to the EU — Minister for EU Relations Nick Thomas-Symonds on the Tory Brexit deal, speaking at our Labour conference rally.

Today 3pm-4.30pm at #lab25! THE UK AND EUROPE: WHAT NEXT? We’ll discuss how 🇬🇧🇪🇺 can work together on trade, energy, security, culture, democracy and rights. With: Nick Thomas-Symonds MP @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social @yuanfenyang.bsky.social @naomipohl.bsky.social /1

Resisting Putin’s aggression. Boosting growth through trade. Lowering energy costs. Creating opportunity for young people. Restoring cultural links. That’s what European partnership means to us. Interested? Join us at #lab25 tomorrow to hear more.

The Chancellor right - the road to uk economic growth goes firmly through Europe and addressing damage Brexit has done to business. The deal we have so far shows the door is open to us to do so- join us in @labour4europe.bsky.social campaigning to do just that www.thetimes.com/article/ea32...

The Chancellor is right: an ambitious deal with the EU will boost growth. But the usual suspects will do their best to block new agreements - from trade, to energy, to defence. We stand for security and prosperity, in partnership with Europe. Stand with us. www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/join

🚨 We are delighted to announce two more speakers to join our 🇬🇧🇪🇺 event at #LAB25 on Sunday: Calvin Bailey, MP for Leyton & Wanstead; member of the Defence Committee Zita Gurmai, Deputy Leader of the Socialist Party in the Hungarian National Assembly; President of @pes-women.bsky.social