Tag: UK immigration

• Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 07:24 UTC

  PM May's office denies freedom of movement will continue once UK leaves EU

  

  Suggestions that freedom of movement will continue after the United Kingdom leaves the EU are wrong, Downing Street has said. Last Friday, Chancellor Philip Hammond warned full controls could take “some time”, prompting speculation free movement may continue in all but name after the UK leaves in March 2019.

• Tuesday, February 11th 2014 - 08:33 UTC

  UK immigration minister resigns over major gaffe: employment of foreign cleaner

  

  Britain’s immigration minister has resigned over the illegal employment of a foreign cleaner, a major gaffe given the UK government’s clampdown on immigration of all kinds.