Starmer has declared Britain’s “need to get closer” to the EU bloc, and, as talks continue about a “reset” deal on food exports, energy markets and a youth mobility scheme, “the breakthrough on Erasmus will help” him “demonstrate progress”, said The Guardian ’s Pippa Crerar.

The report's findings stated that there are still "gaps" in how Stormont politicians can influence EU laws that apply through the Windsor Framework.

Meghan Benton, director for Global Programs at the Migration Policy Institute, told MPs that Brexit created a 'new dimension' in tackling illegal migration to the UK

The European Union has welcomed the United Kingdom’s decision to rejoin the Erasmus+ programme as a “big step forward”, framing the move as both a practical and symbolic reset in post-Brexit relations.

Downing Street sources claim the agreement, hammered out after months of negotiations, marks the first tangible success in Starmer's promised "reset".

There is a new magic spell bewitching Labour MPs, ministers and advisers, a belief that a pledge to start unstitching Brexit could save the party at the next election. All they have to do is stick on those ruby slippers, tap their heels and say “there’s no case like Rome”.

It’s no secret that the party of government finds Brexit a difficult topic. After Jeremy Corbyn’s unsatisfactory fudge in the 2016 referendum, the Prime Minister himself insisted that Labour should subsequently back a second referendum, contributing to the collapse of the Red Wall in the 2019 general election.

That brings us back to yesterday. The vote was on a ‘ten-minute rule’ bill presented by Lib Dem MP Al Pinkerton – those kinds of bills are typically symbolic, as they rarely return to the Commons for a second reading even if they’re passed.