Ulster peace process at risk if free movement of EU citizens is not upheld post Brexit, report warns
Pleas come as campaigners confirm they will be mounting a new legal challenge to a hard Brexit
FREE movement for EU citizens should carry on after Brexit in Northern Ireland as well as Gibraltar, it was claimed last night.
Separate bids were made to strike different deals for the two provinces than the one for the British mainland.
The pleas came as two campaigners confirmed they will be mounting a new legal challenge to a hard Brexit.
Pro-EU Peter Wilding and Leave backer Adrian Yalland ask the High Court to insist Parliament must authorise pulling out of the EU’s single market, as the referendum didn’t sanctify the move.
While mainland Britain clamps down on immigration from the rest of Europe, a House of Lords report warned the Ulster peace process is at risk if the open border between the north and the south of Ireland is not maintained.
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Instead, they called for the EU exit deal to devolve border control powers to the Stormont government.
Otherwise, the Lords EU Committee warned “the efforts of all those who have worked so hard for peace and good relations across these islands” were at threat.
Separately, Gibraltar’s chief minister Fabian Picardo also said the rock needs a special deal to allow 10,000 workers a day from Spain to enter.
Another independent report today calls for the start of official Brexit talks – pledged by the end of March next year - to be the cut-off date after which EU nationals will no longer be automatically allowed to stay.
