Rupa Huq Welcomes EU Reset Deal
Local MP quizzes PM on 'youth experience scheme'
Rupa Huq posing her question to the Prime Minister
May 29, 2025
Rupa Huq, the MP for Ealing Central and Acton one of the most pro-Remain constituencies in the country, has welcomed the government’s move towards a closer relationship with the EU.
She has responded warmly to Keir Starmer’s EU Reset deal and the first bilateral summit between the two parties since Brexit.
At the first opportunity she questioned the Prime Minister in the House of Commons about the details of the “youth experience scheme” which will enable young people to access work, travel and study opportunities.
Dr Huq said in parliament, “Over my ten years of being an MP, Brexit paralysed Parliament for years and latterly we were stuck with a really awful hardest of hard Brexit deals that forced British firms out of business, so I’m pleased finally there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel.”
The PM responses to her request for a timetable on youth mobility was that it would occur as soon as soon negotiators could agree on the terms. He added, “We will develop the plan on the youth experience scheme with our partners. We have instructed our teams to move on all fronts as quickly as we can.”
She has been consistently raising the issue of youth mobility and brought it up with previous governments in 2022 and 2024. On the latest deal she said, “This hasn’t resolved all the rankles of Brexit and certainly will not take us back to the Single Market or within the Customs Union but there will be regular revisiting and it’s a solid start”.
She added, “Hot on the heels of trade deals with India and the US these common-sense reforms are such a contrast with the Tories’ stubborn refusal to address their glaring mistakes for fear for upsetting their rabid Brexiteer horses. As a mum with a boy at university myself I know ‘youth experience’, is particularly welcome by anyone born after 2000 who had no say in the Tories botched Brexit”.
Before the debate in Parliament, she had involved in a verbal joust with the members of two ‘Brexit dynasties’ during a recorded TV interview on the green outside parliament. She was being asked questions on the just-announced reset deal along with Stanley Johnson and Annunziata Rees-Mogg
She said, “It seems ironic I was the only one of the trio not related to Brexiteer political royalty that got us into this mess given it was Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister and Boris’ dad I was sparring with!
“I insisted despite the crowing of my two fellow panellists, that with shorter queues at the passport gates and cheaper prices at the supermarkets this is a good deal… what’s not to like?”
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