Andy Burnham has reached a draft understanding with the EU that would see Britain align with Brussels on food standards and introduce a form of free movement for younger people, according to reports.

The proposed arrangements are emerging ahead of a UK-EU summit, with the bloc’s member states reportedly circulating a 200-page draft sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement.

The BBC reports that separate draft agreements covering emissions trading and a so-called “youth experience scheme” are also being shared, alongside a 15-page statement prepared for EU leaders.

The package is expected to become the centrepiece of the Prime Minister’s Brexit “reset”, which he hopes to complete at a summit in Brussels on November 20.

At the heart of the proposed deal is the SPS agreement. It would commit the UK to following EU rules governing food safety, as well as animal and plant health protections.

Under the proposed youth scheme, EU citizens aged under 30 would be able to live, work and study in Britain.

British citizens would receive equivalent rights in EU member states.

The Prime Minister is also reported to be considering a contribution of up to £450million a year to enable EU students to access reduced tuition fees at UK universities.

Since Brexit, EU students attending British universities have generally faced international tuition fees ranging from £11,400 to £38,000 a year for undergraduate courses.

That compares with the domestic fee rate of £9,790 a year paid by British students.

Brussels is pushing for EU students to be charged the same tuition rate as their British counterparts while studying in the UK.

Mr Burnham has claimed that the agreements he expects to sign this month could deliver an economic boost equivalent to more than £10billion annually by 2040.

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However, angry Brexiteers have criticised the prospect of Britain becoming a “rule-taker”, warning that the Government could give up freedoms gained when the country left the EU.

Speaking at a rally in central London on Tuesday morning, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said: “We left the EU so that we could make our own rules.

“But if the Government is simply signing up to follow EU rules, then what was the point of leaving?

“They are too frightened to use the Brexit freedoms available to us.

“The free trade agreement we have with the EU, like many other agreements, requires constant negotiation.

“I want to see Labour negotiating and improving agreements with countries around the world. That is what you do when you have your own trade policy.”

Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice said: ‘One of the key benefits of Brexit was that Britain no longer had to adhere to ridiculous EU rules, standards and regulations. 

‘Returning to any form of alignment with Europe would crush Britain’s competitiveness and force us to surrender sovereignty over trade policy, putting trade deals worth hundreds of billions of pounds at risk.’

Ahead of the UK-EU summit, Mr Burnham has told MPs he will also be ‘open to a discussion about our relationship with the EU in the longer term’. 

His remarks fuelled questions about the prospect of the UK returning to the EU, or adopting its freedom of movement rules for all citizens by rejoining the bloc’s single market.

Despite saying in a recent newspaper interview that he wants an ‘honest discussion’ about the possibility of returning to free movement, the PM has since appeared to backtrack amid a revolt by some Labour MPs.

In an interview with ITV which aired on Tuesday, Mr Burnham said: ‘I have not proposed freedom of movement coming back.

‘I do believe that we should have an honest discussion with people about how immigration has changed since the Brexit vote because the shorter term migration of people coming from Europe and then going back has been replaced with long term settlement in bigger numbers, and that was the Boriswave.’

Melanie Lynskey has offered a candid account of what she really earned on Two and a Half Men, days after her co-star Holland Taylor criticized the sitcom and CBS.

The 49-year-old actress responded in the comments beneath a clip of 83-year-old Taylor discussing her pay on the podcast Alchemy with Anthony Mason.

One fan praised Taylor’s performance and claimed she had been paid just $75,000 per episode, while Charlie Sheen reportedly earned between $1 million and $1.8 million, Jon Cryer received $575,000 and Angus T. Jones made $300,000 per episode.

The commenter also claimed Conchata Ferrell earned $150,000 per episode and that Lynskey’s salary eventually reached between $200,000 and $300,000.

Lynskey stepped in to correct what she described as an “insane” rumor about her earnings from the long-running comedy.

“Hey! Sorry, but this insane number is floating around on the internet and I must tell you how wrong it is,” she wrote. “I only did 63 out of 262 episodes of that show. I made literally one tenth of that stated number per episode, starting at $20,000 with, I believe, a 5% raise each season. More than half of the episodes I did were in the first two seasons.”

She added that her highest payment was approximately $43,000 for a single episode during the final season. That figure came before deductions for agents, managers, business managers and taxes, meaning she ultimately took home about half of her stated salary.

Lynskey portrayed Rose, Charlie Harper’s devoted, obsessive neighbor and stalker, on the sitcom. The character was known for her endearing yet devious behavior.

Although Lynskey said she was thankful for the opportunity, she dismissed claims that the role had made her millions.

“I was extremely grateful for the job and for the money. It allowed me to pay my small mortgage and bills, work in independent movies and build a career,” Lynskey explained. “But there is this insane idea that I made millions of dollars, and it’s so ridiculous.”

She concluded: “If Holland’s talking about it, I’ll talk about it too” [laughing emoji].

Lynskey was referring to Taylor’s recent remarks that she was never offered a raise during her time on Two and a Half Men.

“They never paid me very well on that show,” the veteran actress said during the podcast episode.

Taylor, whose longtime partner is Sarah Paulson, said she was paid the same amount she had earned on a series roughly eight years earlier.

Taylor also noted that, despite receiving four Emmy nominations for playing Evelyn Harper—the mother of Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer’s characters—she never received a pay increase during her six seasons as a regular cast member.

‘They never gave me a raise. They usually do, just as a courtesy. I loved a lot about that show, but they were not full of courtesies,’ Holland noted.

The Hollywood fixture added that she left producers ‘astonished’ when she decided not to renew her contract in 2009. 

‘I said, “I don’t want to be under contract anymore,” and they said, “We can’t pay you any more money,”‘ she recalled.

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She detailed, ‘First of all, I said, “You could actually pay me the cost of this building, but don’t bother, because I don’t want to continue on under contract.”‘

Instead, she made guest appearances at her discretion, telling producers, ‘I will visit the show occasionally if you want.’

Holland acknowledged the significance of her role, telling podcast host Mason, ‘I mean, I did play the boys’ mother [after all].’

She claimed that CBS ‘didn’t want to’ increase her pay because ‘they were just trying to protect themselves against giving me a raise of any significance.’

 And she pointed out that Cryer ‘quadrupled his salary’ when his contract was up.

After her contract expired, Holland did return occasionally in a guest capacity. 

In the end, she appeared in all 12 seasons of the series throughout its run from 2003-2015. 

In September 2025, 60-year-old Cryer opened up about earning significantly less than Sheen, 61, on the hit show. 

In the Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, the 60-year-old actor said he earned one third of Sheen’s salary.

Per Forbes, Sheen was earning $1.9 million per episode at the show’s peak. 

Meanwhile, Cryer made only $620,000 per episode, as claimed by The Hollywood Reporter.

Cryer detailed how he felt about the pay discrepancy.

‘He’s in the midst of falling apart in every way that I can imagine, and he’s renegotiating his contract for another year of a show that I’m supposed to be on, too,’ he said, according to an account from People.

He went on to compare his troubled co-star – who was eventually dismissed from the show amid personal struggles – to a dictator.

Cryer stated: ‘The dictator of North Korea was a guy named Kim Jong-Il. He acted crazy all the time and thus got enormous amounts of aid from countries who were so scared of him that they would shovel money at him.

‘Well, that’s what happened here. [Sheen’s] negotiations went off the charts because his life was falling apart. Me, whose life was pretty good at that time, I got a third of that.’

He also revealed that the show’s network, CBS, had motive to ‘spend this astonishing amount of money on Charlie’ because it had ‘pre-sold a couple extra seasons’ of the series.

However, Sheen was let go from the television comedy in 2011 after he publicly criticized show creator Chuck Lorre. He was replaced by Ashton Kutcher.

Thousands of strangers travelled to a wedding in China after the groom posted an emotional online invitation asking people to attend.

Xu Chenghong, 24, worried guests might be reluctant to make the journey to his wedding to Luo Chui because the ceremony was being held in a rural village in Yunnan province.

With only his brother among his close relatives, the groom turned to Douyin, China’s equivalent of TikTok. Using the name Xiao Xiao Xu, he invited strangers to come and “fill up the tables” at the celebration.

His appeal quickly went viral. Although he had only a modest online following, more than 10,000 well-wishers travelled to the mountainous village in southwestern China.

The unexpected guests arrived just days after Mr Chenghong posted his request on the Sunday before the wedding, making the journey by car, plane and train.

They also arrived with gifts, despite the groom’s request that guests should not bring “red envelopes”—the cash traditionally presented at Chinese weddings.

Instead, the newlyweds received freezers, electric heaters and food for their wedding banquet. The couple married last Saturday.

Chefs volunteered to help prepare the feast, while the bride received complimentary makeup. An online influencer who drove from his own village brought 9,999 roses for the occasion.

Mr Chenghong had spent much of his life supporting himself after his father died, leaving him and his brother to be raised by their grandmother. She later passed away while the boys were still young.

He worked a series of casual jobs on construction sites and in factories before also running his own food stall.

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Over time, the groom saved 128,000 yuan—around £14,300—for the dowry expected in modern China.

However, local media reported that Mr Chenghong’s father-in-law returned the money, saying the groom needed it more than the bride’s family did.

The village embraced the celebration in keeping with the province’s reputation for hospitality, eventually moving the festivities to the town square to accommodate the huge crowd.

A Shanghai newspaper said the wedding had “transcended the operating logic of the close-knit, kinship-based society of rural China”.

Yunnan Television described the event as evidence that “strangers could become family, and that the internet can convey the most personal emotions”.

The sudden attention also led to several Xiao Xiao Xu accounts appearing online, apparently with the intention of profiting from the viral story.

It comes as marriage registrations in China dropped to a decade low.

China recorded 1.697 million marriage ⁠registrations in the quarter, the ​Ministry of Civil Affairs said in May. 

The ​figures were the latest sign of China’s deepening demographic challenges.

China’s population fell for a fourth ​consecutive year in 2025, while its ​birth rate dropped to a record low, prompting ‌warnings ⁠from demographers of further decline.

Couples in China have traditionally had children after marriage, reflecting both cultural norms and administrative ​rules that ​have ⁠in some cases linked birth registration or access to benefits ​to a marriage certificate.

Authorities have ​rolled ⁠out a range of measures to encourage marriage and childbearing, including family subsidies, ⁠childcare ​support and efforts to ​reduce childbirth-related medical costs.

Megyn Kelly has delivered a sharp critique of Nicole Kidman’s latest Vogue Australia photo shoot.

The 59-year-old actress sparked headlines last month after appearing in the magazine wearing youthful Chanel looks, including a bikini, low-slung denim jeans and a strapless dress.

Kidman’s remarkably youthful appearance also prompted debate, with some critics speculating that artificial intelligence or extensive editing had been used to make her look younger.

Kelly has now entered the conversation, criticizing the Australian star’s styling and accusing her of dressing “inappropriately” during a segment on The Megyn Kelly Show this week.

“The woman is 60 years old, OK? You don’t have to dress like my 15-year-old daughter,” the American commentator said.

“Why don’t you try looking fabulous at 60? Instead of trying to look like a 14-year-old, it’s inappropriate and it gives viewers the ick factor.”

Kelly also questioned how authentic the photographs were, claiming that the images had been heavily retouched.

“There absolutely has been gobs of retouching done to these photos,” she said, before comparing the images with Kidman’s appearance in video footage.

“Have you seen Nicole Kidman in any moving pictures?”

She further alleged that the actress had undergone cosmetic procedures, describing her face as “puffy” and suggesting she had received a substantial amount of filler.

“She has absolutely stuffed it full of filler at every fold, and yet magically on this cover, she has absolutely no age on her whatsoever,” Kelly added.

Kelly’s remarks quickly sparked debate among her online followers, many of whom defended Kidman and praised her appearance.

“Why go after Nicole? She’s a great movie star and she looks incredible for nearly 60. Also, she never bores anyone with her politics. Let it go,” one user wrote.

“Who cares? If it makes her happy, go for it. She’s not hurting anyone,” another commenter said.

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A third user added: “I disagree, she’s beautiful. She’s living life and defying age.”

Several celebrities also joined the discussion. Jodhi Meares, the former swimwear designer who was previously linked to James Packer, defended Kidman, writing: “Nicole is an Australian icon and she looks INCREDIBLE.”

Australian businesswoman Janine Allis meanwhile added: ‘She looks amazing. Don’t shame. She is a woman with feelings. Everyone should do what they want. Nicole, do you!’ 

However, others took Megyn’s side, with one commenter writing: ‘Go Megyn. Call it for what it is. I like Nicole but what the heck is she doing??’ 

‘Exactly… It is OK to be old,’ another added. 

Daily Mail has reached out to Nicole’s reps for comment.  

It comes after Megyn was slammed by several celebrities over her comments about Christina Applegate’s multiple sclerosis diagnosis.

Applegate, 54, recently revealed her doctor had told her she did not have MS, despite suffering debilitating symptoms for more than five years.

The actress, who announced her diagnosis in 2021, said on her Messy podcast that her condition had continued to worsen, leaving her back at square one. 

Megyn subsequently accused Applegate of making a ‘cottage industry’ out of her illness and leading fans on a ‘wild goose chase’.

Her remarks sparked an angry backlash, with fellow MS sufferer and former Fox News colleague Janice Dean branding her a ‘mean girl’ and accusing her of lacking empathy.

Actress Melissa Gilbert also condemned Kelly, urging her to consider how devastating it would be to receive a diagnosis, only to have it questioned years later while still suffering the same symptoms.

The View hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sara Haines also hit back, with Goldberg questioning why Applegate would want to have MS, while Haines said Kelly was ‘kicking someone when they’re down’.