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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 1h

Patrick Keating from Honda Europe spoke at the UKTBC evidence session on the ‘Made in Europe Agenda’. "We've always supported the UK maintaining as close a relationship as possible with the EU. "For us, Europe remains essentially one region."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 23h

At today’s UKTBC evidence session on the ‘Made in Europe Agenda’, Edward Gibbs from Jaguar Land Rover was asked if there are areas where the UK should seek to diverge further from the EU. He gave a clear answer: “Absolutely not.”

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Join us today for a UKTBC session looking at key issues ahead of the UK-EU summit What does the EU's Made in Europe agenda mean for UK carmakers and supply chains? How should the UK Government engage with Brussels? We'll hear from representatives from the SMMT, Honda Europe and Jaguar Land Rover.

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lillian Jones MP is the new chair of the UK Trade and Business Commission. She has written an op-ed for LBC on why Britain needs a new deal with Europe that works for everyone. Read it here ⬇️

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Britain needs a new deal with Europe that works for everyone | LBC

The Prime Minister has opened up a conversation about our long-term relationship with the EU. As Chairwoman of the UK Tr

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Join us for this timely session of the new UKTBC, which will examine key issues ahead of the UK-EU summit. Representatives from the SMMT, Honda Europe and Jaguar Land Rover will discuss the EU's "Made in Europe" agenda and how the Government should engage with Brussels.

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🚨NEW REPORT🚨 This report, from the cross-party, cross-industry UK Trade and Business Commission (UKTBC) delivers 8 substantive recommendations for the UK Government, and our EU partners on how we can strengthen energy cooperation.

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UK-EU ETS Report — UK Trade and Business Commission

This report, from the cross-party, cross-industry UK Trade and Business Commission (UKTBC) delivers 8 substantive recomm

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Andrew Lewin MP has stepped down as Chair of the UKTBC after leading its work for the past 18 months, following his appointment as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the DBT. During his tenure, the UKTBC advanced key work on UK-EU relations, including reports on SPS alignment and youth mobility.

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Andrew Lewin MP stands down as UKTBC Chair — UK Trade and Business Commission

Andrew Lewin MP has stepped down as Chair of the UK Trade and Business Commission (UKTBC) after leading its work for the

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 This report, from the cross-party, cross-industry UK Trade and Business Commission (UKTBC) delivers 5 substantive recommendations for the UK Government, and our EU partners on how we can make an SPS deal a reality.

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The UK-EU SPS Agreement — UK Trade and Business Commission

This report, from the cross-party, cross-industry UK Trade and Business Commission (UKTBC) delivers 5 substantive recomm

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

UKTBC Chair Andrew Lewin MP: "I am a proud pro-European." "I would recommend you have a look at some of the polling that's out there, Best for Britain, on a youth mobility deal" "There is overwhelming public support. Around 65 to 70%. The British people recognise that our EU allies are important."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Chair of the UKTBC Andrew Lewin has written a timely update on UK-EU relations. "The Labour party need not limit our ambition to a Swiss deal, a customs partnership, or any pre-existing agreement. The mutual interests of the EU and the UK are changing too."

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Andrew Lewin (@andrewlewinmp)

This essay was first published by the Fabian society as part of a collection of Labour Thinks Essays, I would encourage

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"For a prime minister desperately seeking economic growth, closer ties with the EU make sense." The UKTBC has long advocated for closer alignment between the UK and the EU on goods and services.

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Can the UK rejoin the EU? Keir Starmer looks to undo Brexit damage

Ten years on from the vote to leave, the prime minister wants Britain to adopt single market rules to bring us into clos

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🚨 Speaking at a session of the UKTBC on geopolitics, defence and security, former Lammy advisor Ben Judah cautioned: “The superpower around which we have built our entire security has become erratic, unpredictable, unreliable and deeply emotional.” www.tradeandbusiness.uk/news/us-err…

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‘Erratic, unreliable’ USA could pose ‘threat to Europe’, experts warn — UK Trade and Business Commission

The United States has become “erratic” and "unreliable", and could even “be a threat to Europe”, experts including a for

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ben Judah: "I think our relationship with the EU remains locked in what is overwhelmingly a technocratic channel and I think that we need to have far more political high level discussions about where we want this relationship to be in five and ten years between the principals themselves.

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Olivia O'Sullivan: "The last time we were spending as much on defence as we're aiming to spend, we were spending about half what we're projected to spend on health in the 2030s." "Making that a shared problem and recognising the gravity of that problem together might help address it."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Professor Phillips O'Brien: "If they can start thinking that way about defence and trusting their partners, that would be a very positive thing." "If European states still see the big thing here is to triumph over each other, they're not going to get anywhere."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ben Judah: "The relationship between the UK and Ukraine genuinely is a special relationship." "And it's not for nothing that the Russians are so hostile to the UK and that the Ukrainians see the UK as their number one strategic, number one, strategic ally."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Olivia O'Sullivan: "The creation of SAFE itself is a good sign. I think the real prize here is the prospect of a kind of more permanent approach to European defence industrial planning, spending and procurement." "So I think it's important that the UK, and the EU agree access to SAFE."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Professor Phillips O'Brien: "Where they're, if not rejoining, close relationship with the EU, is now wildly popular, but no party seems to be pushing it" "Something that is overwhelmingly supported by the British people, the system isn't actually creating parties that are taking that forward"

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Professor Phillips O'Brien: "To talk about the UK on its own is I think partly a, problematic construction." "Europe will fall or rise together. I'm not sure that the idea that you can look at a separate UK from European response now and say the UK could do anything on its own."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Olivia O'Sullivan of Chatham House: "The kind of growing willingness of great powers, specifically China and the US, to use economic ties and trade policies to coerce other states ... makes the whole logic of leaving a wider trade bloc, as we did when we left the EU, flimsier."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ben Judah: "I think that there is still a lot of short-termism, and a lack of strategic thinking towards the UK in key institutions in Brussels and in certain member states." "I think we saw that over the SAFE negotiations, and how those were treated by key EU institutions."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Professor Phillips O'Brien: "I would even go so far as to say the United States might be a threat to Europe right now, and that needs to be faced." "There is a reasonable argument now that NATO is undermining European security."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Olivia O'Sullivan of Chatham House: "The US has signalled that it will withdraw from its previous role in guaranteeing European security." "The prospect of those capabilities either not being provided in a crisis is what leaves Europe with a gap." "That is a shared risk between the EU and the UK."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Tom Brufatto Executive Director of Policy and Research at Best for Britain, secretariat to the UKTBC: “It is welcome news that the UK government appears to have considered the UKTBC's informed and substantive recommendations, as the UK and EU aim to reach agreement on this crucial area of policy."

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UKTBC annual cap and ‘headroom’ proposals driving youth mobility talks — UK Trade and Business Commission

An annual cap of some 45,000 participants and the concept of visa ‘headroom’ - proposals at the heart of the UK Trade an

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

👏 The UK Government is reported to be ready to offer the EU a youth mobility scheme capped at 45,000 a year for under-30s. This follows the UKTBC's recommendation on the size of the cap in our latest report on the Youth Experience Scheme released in December 2025.

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UK to offer 45,000 Brexit visas a year to under-30s from Europe

The UK is examining how to deliver a youth experience scheme with the bloc, while honouring its manifesto pledge to redu

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Welcome news that the UK govt is seriously considering a key UKTBC recommendation, proposing a YMS for 45,000 young Brits and EU citizens to work or study in the UK or the EU. Reporting by Kitty Donaldson: inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk-offer-…

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UK to offer 45,000 Brexit visas a year to under-30s from Europe

The UK is examining how to deliver a youth experience scheme with the bloc, while honouring its manifesto pledge to redu

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Chancellor Rachel Reeves argued in her Mais lecture at Bayes Business School this week that where it was in the national interest, the UK should be “prepared to align with EU regulation, including in further areas of the single market”.

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All the signs that Labour wants to undo Brexit

The Government says it will not rejoin the customs union or single market, but senior figures have been pushing for clos

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

📓The UKTBC's report on the Youth Experience Scheme argued domestic fees should not be given to EU students after consultation with University stakeholders. 🎓 Charley Robinson of Universities UK worried that expanding home fee status would exacerbate the funding crisis for UK universities.

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Row over tuition fees cut for European students threatens Starmer’s EU reset

British negotiators ‘blindsided’ by Brussels’ demand for a reduction that could cost universities £140m a year

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Chair of the UKTBC Andrew Lewin implores the government to reopen negotiations with the European Union on the SAFE mechanism, one of the key aspects of the May 19 summit agreement.

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

George Riddell, Managing Director at Goyder Ltd, on the progress made since the government's decision to reset the relationship with the European Union.

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Jonny Peters, Chief of Staff @e3g.bsky.social: Due to "unforeseen geopolitical situations, it's absolutely vital that we invest in the UK-EU relationship."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Adam Berman, Director of Policy and Advocacy @energy-uk.org.uk: "The cheapest way to energy security is by cooperating with our closest neighbours."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Jonny Peters, Chief of Staff @e3g.bsky.social "There is a positive story to tell here." "This is a fundamental change that the government is pursuing." "This is so it's night and day compared to the previous government and this government."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Jonny Peters, Chief of Staff @e3g.bsky.social: “There’s more that can be done in this space to quickly remove some of those costs to consumers directly.” “That broader economic growth then allows the government to use tax levers.”

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Jonny Peters, Chief of Staff at @e3g.bsky.social, on the cost to consumers and lost revenue for the government: “I think that the £10 billion over the course of this parliament figure is right.”

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🚨 "I could not name you a single industry that falls under the UK ETS and the CBAM which is not pretty vocally in favour of linkage." - Adam Berman, Director of Policy and Advocacy at @energy-uk.org.uk.

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🚨 "All we are doing here is formally aligning what is effectively the lived reality of these policy mechanisms." - Adam Berman, Director of Policy and Advocacy at @energy-uk.org.uk

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Adam Berman, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Energy UK: "There is no strategic advantage in being on third country terms when it comes to energy or climate policy. "Not least because we're doing the exact same thing as the EU."

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🚨 Join us at 10:30am as the UKTBC discusses how to strengthen UK–EU energy cooperation. Our panel includes: Adam Berman - Director of Policy and Advocacy @energy-uk.org.uk @georgeriddell.bsky.social - Managing Director, Goyder Ltd Jonny Peters - Chief of Staff @e3g.bsky.social

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Strengthening UK-EU Energy Cooperation

This timely session will provide valuable insights into the ongoing UK–EU energy negotiations. The discussion will exami

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The Guardian on our new report: "It’s only when organisations pop up and advocate for the young that you realise how rare that now is. "This morning the cross-party UKTBC produced a report recommending terms for a time-limited youth experience scheme." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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An EU-UK mobility scheme work won’t erase the ‘violent indifference’ against young people. But it’s a start | Zoe Williams

We need people from Europe to move to the UK – but also a way to give Brits the opportunity to build the futures they crave, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Marsha de Cordova @marshadecordova.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

In my role as Co-Chair of the UK-EU PPA, I have long supported a youth experience scheme. The @uktradebusiness.bsky.social proposes a practical way forward, giving young people more opportunities to gain new skills, experience new cultures & thrive. www.bestforbritain.org/launch_yes_w...

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Launch UK-EU youth experience scheme with initial 44,000 cap, says cross-party commission

A new cross-party report recommends the UK and EU should launch the UK’s largest and most generous scheme to restore opportunities for young people who have been denied them by Brexit.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Very good series of proposals from the UK Trade and Business Commission on a UK-EU youth mobility scheme: Set it initially at 44,000, keep fees at a nominal level, have it last for two years with an optional year add-on at the end www.bestforbritain.org/launch_yes_w...

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Launch UK-EU youth experience scheme with initial 44,000 cap, says cross-party commission

A new cross-party report recommends the UK and EU should launch the UK’s largest and most generous scheme to restore opportunities for young people who have been denied them by Brexit.

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

In our new report, we recommend that the UK and the EU launch a new time-limited Youth Experience Scheme, capped at 44,000 visas in the first year. This would restore opportunities for young people who have been denied them by the existing Brexit deal. www.tradeandbusiness.uk/news/launch-...

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Launch UK-EU youth experience scheme with initial 44,000 cap, says cross-party commission — UK Trade and Business Commission

A new cross-party report recommends the UK and EU should launch the UK’s largest and most generous scheme to restore opportunities for young people who have been denied them by Brexit.

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

On our new report: "Ministers could allow more than 40,000 EU citizens into Britain as part of a youth mobility scheme without increasing net migration, research suggests, before talks in Brussels on Starmer’s EU reset." www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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UK could allow in 40,000 EU citizens under youth mobility scheme

Net migration would be unaffected, however, according to a study that shows more young Britons left the UK as part of existing schemes than came the other way

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UK Trade & Business Commission @uktradebusiness.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Our new report outlines how the UK and the EU could implement a Youth Experience Scheme. “The report is likely to give weight to the arguments of Britain’s negotiators in talks over the deal,” writes Arj Singh. Read here: inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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UK visas for 44,000 European under-30s could seal new Brexit deal

A deal could see tens of thousands of British under-30s travel, work or study in the EU

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