Tag: UK: Brexit

NOVANEWS Joint parliamentary committee says human rights should be safeguarded and calls on government to take firm position on residence rights. The human rights of EU nationals living in the UK should not be used as bargaining chips in Brexit negotiations, the committee has warned. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA Owen Bowcott Mass deportations of the estimated 2.9 million EU nationals living in the UK would be impractical and they should not be used as a “bargaining chip” in Brexit negotiations, the government is being warned. In a strongly-worded report published on Monday, parliament’s influential joint committee on human rights (JCHR) highlights the political uncertainty over the residential status of both EU citizens in the UK and the 1.2 million Briton...