EU posted worker reform is blow to single market

Just a few weeks ago heads of states and governments gathered in Brussels to discuss the UK reform agenda. Achieving compromise was a hard task - and one of the key sticking points was whether and how much we are willing to limit one of the key benefits of European integration, the free movement of labour.

The governments including ours were willing to make sacrifices in order to reach the strategic goal of keeping the EU stronger with the UK in. The negotiations were complicated and h...