Brexit deal is cruel on young people - Yorkshire Post Letters

HAVING callously and casually deprived young British people of the life-enhancing benefits brought by the ability to travel, study, work and live freely on the continent of whose heritage Britain has long been a pillar, Boris Johnson cruelly announces that the UK will no longer participate in the EU’s Erasmus student exchange scheme.

He does so while repeating his desire for “our young people to experience the immense intellectual stimulation of Europe but also of the whole world”. Furthermore the new rules would have rendered the Beatles in Hamburg too complex and costly and likely prevented the involvement of many European dancers in our beloved Strictly.

The UK’s own experts see a four per cent decline in living standards with the EU trade deal. The independent trade deals to be struck will likely never compensate for erecting barriers to previously seamless trade with the continent.

But what most saddens is how Brexit reduces opportunities for our scientists to shine, our linguists to thrive, our musicians to play and for my grandchildren to travel and study, live and work in Europe, rights that their Irish cousin and British citizens born in Northern Ireland will still have.

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