Government has no guarantee for migrant workers
5th July 2016

The Government has this week come under fire for refusing to guarantee that EU nationals working in the UK will be allowed to remain here after Brexit.

Junior Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, answering a tabled question from Labour MP Gisela Stuart, said it would be unwise for the government to guarantee anything without reciprocal assurances about the position of the 1.2 million UK nationals living elsewhere in the EU.

Stuart later said it was “deeply, deeply offensive” to deny millions of people the right to plan their lives for the next couple of years, while Andy Burnham, the shadow Home Secretary, added: “The three million or so EU nationals living here are the fathers and mothers, aunties and uncles, grandmas and grandads of millions of British children. Any uncertainty hanging over their right to be here is tantamount to undermining family life in our country.”