Natalie Bennett: Theresa May’s questioning of status of EU immigrants 'appalling'

30 June 2016

GREEN Party leader Natalie Bennett has described as “appalling” the indication by the frontrunner for the Conservative Party leadership contest today that the status of three million citizens from other EU states already living in Britain would be a subject of Brexit negotiations.

Bennett said:

“This is an appalling statement by Theresa May. It throws into deep uncertainty the lives of not just the three million citizens from other EU states living in the UK, but also the at least 1.2 million Britons living in other parts of Europe.

“This affects people’s homes, education, jobs, lives. Millions of people’s plans for the future have now been thrown into doubt.

“I call on Mrs May, and all of the other Tory leadership candidates, to immediately declare that they will regard as inviolable the rights of European individuals settled in the UK, or those studying here, to continue to live their lives as they planned.

“This would also offer protection to the rights of UK citizens in other EU states.”

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