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

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.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has listed Brexit alongside Covid-19 and the financial crisis as being “shocks” that had damaged the UK, as 100 MPs voted for Britain to rejoin a customs union with the EU.

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.

There have been calls for Fujitsu to be stripped of its public contracts while sub postmasters affected by the scandal await full compensation. In August, more than 32 MPs and 44 peers wrote to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, urging him to block the firm from bidding for control of the TSS platform.

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

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”.