How do EU people in the UK feel about Brexit? [The EU Referendum, 23 June 2016. The United Kingdom and the European Union. The results. Reaction of EU Citizens in the UK]

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Series Details 26.06.16
Publication Date 26/06/2016
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Following the EU referendum in the United Kingdom on the 23 June 2016 at which UK citizens voted to leave the EU, what where the views of citizens of other EU countries living in the UK.

Following the result there were reported incidents of racism believed to have been fuelled by the referendum.

The key question for many existing EU citizens already living and working in the UK was what would be their status once the UK had left the EU.

A joint letter in The Sunday Telegraph on the 3 July 2016, organised by British Future and signed by politicians of different parties and from across the Leave and Remain divide, as well as business groups and think tanks, including Open Europe, called on the UK Government and politicians of all parties and on both sides of the referendum debate 'to make a clear and unequivocal statement that EU migrants currently living in the UK are welcome here and that post-referendum changes would apply only to new migrants'.

However, Philip Hammond, UK Foreign Secretary, said on the 4 July 2016 that guaranteeing EU citizens' right to remain in the UK without commitments from other countries towards Britons abroad risked 'selling our people out too cheap'.

David Davis, the Minister chosen by the new UK Prime Minister Theresa May to lead the Brexit negotiations, told a Sunday newspaper on the 15 July 2016 that new EU migrants who travel to Britain after a possible to be future specified cut-off date may be sent home to avoid a surge in immigration during the time taken to negotiate the UK's departure from the EU. Migrants already in the UK could stay.

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ESO: Background information: Brits abroad: How Brexit could hurt expats http://www.europeansources.info/record/brits-abroad-how-brexit-could-hurt-expats/
ESO: Background information: The EU Referendum, 23 June 2016. The United Kingdom and the European Union. The results http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-eu-referendum-23-june-2016-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union-the-results/
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