Why Brexit still feels like a personal loss
11/07/2021
It might have had five years to sink in, but for those with deep roots on the continent, the pain of Brexit still feels raw – particularly at this time of year.
On trade, finance, migration, food standards and more, the UK suffers fresh ignominy on a daily basis.
ON June 24, 2016, global markets were in turmoil, David Cameron was resigning, Trump was emboldened, and three million EU nationals in Britain were facing an uncertain future in a country that had just told them via the Brexit referendum they were no longer welcome. We were two of them.
WATCHING our new and returning MSPs get into Holyrood and start work has been great to see, and the contrast between Scotland’s two parliaments last week was thought provoking than most.
Children in care born to EU parents face complex barriers to remaining in the UK.
No-deal Brexit looks set to spark another scandal, leaving thousands of EU citizens stateless
11/07/2020
When the Home Office bureaucracy finally runs out of time next summer, many will very likely be eligible for forced deportation.
For all the reassurances about their status, the risk of being kicked out still haunts those without a British passport.
There is no EU27 migrant, like me, who will accept the annihilation of their rights with positivity.
If Boris Johnson really wants to solve the nursing crisis, he should keep the doors open to EU workers.
Once you do it Brexit will become real, but until then you can just stay in denial, journalist Marie Le Conte writes.
Many Brexiters, including the prime minister, are in denial about the cruelty that their choices have already inflicted on millions of people.
The Windrush scandal makes me fear for the rights of EU citizens after Brexit - Sadiq Khan
26/04/2019
The government is currently registering more than three million EU citizens living in the UK, which is by far the biggest change in immigration status for a generation. Unsurprisingly, this is causing a great deal of anxiety.
In the time that has passed since the referendum took place in 2016, one thing has continuously stood out to me – the failure of politicians and commentators, both in the UK and the EU, to grasp the severely negative impact Brexit has already had on millions of people.
EU nationals are discovering that the Home Office is driven not by reason but by keeping numbers down.