Nick Thomas-Symonds and Trevor Phillips.Trevor Phillips skewered a senior Labour minister over apparent cabinet splits over the government’s deal with the European Union.Keir Starmer is set to sign up to a youth mobility scheme with the bloc as he tries to improve relations between the UK and Brussels.That would allow British and EU citizens aged between 18 and 30 to move more freely, as they did before Brexit.However, home secretary Yvette Cooper has previously spoken of her opposition to such an arrangement as she tries to cut immigration numbers.On Sky News this morning, presenter Phillips played an interview he did with Cooper in February to Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Cabinet Office minister leading the government’s EU negotiations.In it, Cooper said: “We’ve been clear that we need net migration to come down. U
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