Britain will end the free movement of labor immediately after Brexit and introduce restrictions to block the entry of low-skilled workers from the European Union and strip EU citizens of rights to bring family members to Britain, a leaked government paper suggests.
The UK Home Office documents set out how a new system would give London powers to refuse EU citizens entry and the right to work, and demand a minimum income level of anyone wishing to stay in Britain.
“Put plainly, this means that, to be considered valuable to the country as a whole, immigration should benefit not just the migrants themselves but also make existing residents better off,” the paper says.
The documents set out how a new system would give the government powers to refuse EU citizens entry and the right to work, and demand a minimum income level of anyone wishing to stay in the UK.
It proposes measures to reduce the number of lower-skilled EU migrants – offering…