U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will attend a meeting of European Union leaders early next year. He'll be the first U.K. leader to do so since the country’s departure from the bloc in 2020.

Senior ministers have made several visits to meetings of their European counterparts, with Rachel Reeves becoming the first Chancellor since Brexit to attend a meeting of EU finance ministers on Monday and David Lammy attending a meeting of foreign ministers earlier in the year.

The minister who will lead Keir Starmer’s negotiations in resetting the UK’s damaged relationship with the EU has hinted that the government is open to a major concession. After rejecting plans for a youth mobility scheme agreement to allow under-30s to travel and work more easily between the UK and EU,