“Is it not obvious that the forced deportation of millions of EU citizens is something no sane or fair government would contemplate doing? “EU citizens are among our top surgeons, our top consultants, our top anaesthetists,” Pickles said. Labour is to force a Commons vote on Wednesday to rule out the use of 3 million European Union citizens living in Britain “as bargaining chips” in the Brexit negotiations and allow them the right to remain in the UK. The immigration minister, James Brokenshire, backed May’s position, saying it would be unwise to fully guarantee EU nationals living in the UK the right to stay “without a parallel assurance from European governments regarding British nationals living in their countries. Such a step might also have the unintended consequence of prompting EU immigration to the UK.”

Source: The Guardian July 05, 2016 12:29 UTC