‘ We can ’t sleepwalk into another Windrush ’

Images: Marcus Rose UNISON EU members urged the government to “truly safeguard” citizens’ rights, regardless of the final outcome of the Brexit negotiations, in a major Westminster rally and lobby yesterday They joined colleagues from citizens’ rights groups the3million and British in Europe to form a human chain from Parliament Square to Downing Street, where they presented a letter of demands to prime minister Theresa May. Later the campaigners met with their MPs in Westminster – where they found a cross-party selection of politicians very much on their side. With the UK set to leave the EU on 29 March 2019, negotiations between the British government and Brussels continue to be stuck in a rut – with the very real prospect of no deal being made by that date. But as one rally speaker commented yesterday: “No deal is not an option for the five million living in limbo.” Shadow Brexit minister Paul Bloomfield later echoed that sentiment when he addressed the lobby and warned: “We can’t sleepwalk into another Windrush.” Although Theresa May has guaranteed EU citizens their right to remain in the UK, questions remain about the validity of that guarantee and the actual rights they will enjoy in the years to come. As things stand, the rights at risk include: automatic mutual recognition of some professional qualifications; the right to be joined by existing family members, partners and descendants of any nationality after transition; entitlement to all socia...
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