Podcast hosts discuss Brexit negotiations (Part 3)

Be a cap. What size will the cap be? Especially because this is ultimately about, for the uk, sort of about immigration, really, and about the movement of people. And also what will the settlement be on tuition fees. Yes. So I was talking to people yesterday and I've written a column about it for the website today. I was talking to people about that niggly part and it seems that is one of the most contentious bits. What I was told on the EU side is that the UK had initially suggested a cap on student numbers of 50,000. The EU had suggested 150,000, but they were very much expecting that they'd be able to find a compromise somewhere between those two numbers. But that apparently has not yet been settled. And another source has been involved in the negotiations said to me that is 90% there overall. But that is one of the issues that is still to be worked out. And in terms of tuition fees, what I've been told is going to happen is that the EU put in what apparently it's quite a last minute request to say, oh, by the way, also, can you just cut fees for EU students who want to come? So they wouldn't be paying UK levels of fees, they'd be paying sort of international students or EU students. Yeah. And what I've been told is the classic Euro fudge is that very difficult issue will be parked for six months and they'll carry on talking about it, but it won't actually stop the overall deal being done. So that one might be parked. And that's. That's three then. Do I pass? Yeah, that's true. You did very, very well. And I brilliantly got out of having to remember all the detail. So what we're going to talk about more today, I think, is the political risks in all of this. Where's the opportunity and where is the jeopardy? Because as we reminded people last week, this is what Labor's manifesto said. With Labor, Britain will stay outside of the eu, but we will reset the relationship and seek to deepen ties. But that does not mean reopening the divisions of the past. This is the point where I have to apologize because on a previous episode of Newscast Laura, I got the wrong manifesto page number. I can't believe it's 115 and it was 117. I've let you down. I've let the school down. I've most of all let myself down. And I'm, I'm sorry about that. But it is, I think, though, that you just passed those three tests so brilliantly. I think you've. I think you've. I think it's fine. I think that is generous. I think we can move on. But it is. But it does show that the sort of restrictions that Andy Burnham is currently under because he said he's keeping to that manifesto until the end of this Parliament, wherever, whenever that will be, depending on when he wants to call an election. But clearly, in recent weeks, all.