It is being reported that #10, after days of inner kerfuffle, has categorically assured that there will be no "free movement" of individuals between UK and EU after March 2019.
The prime minister’s spokesman said that free movement of EU citizens to and from the UK would end in March 2019, when the UK leaves the bloc.“Elements of the post-Brexit immigration system will be brought forward in due course,” the spokesman added. “It would be wrong to speculate on what these will look like or to suggest that free movement will continue.”
All this against a weekend where some government official were talking about a "soft-brexit" and others were taunting harsher and strict separation measures from EU
The prime minister’s spokesman said that free movement of EU citizens to and from the UK would end in March 2019, when the UK leaves the bloc.“Elements of the post-Brexit immigration system will be brought forward in due course,” the spokesman added. “It would be wrong to speculate on what these will look like or to suggest that free movement will continue.”
This is not a small ordeal, intra an extra UK… for people in Ireland and N. Ireland… and for the cause of Scottish Independence
These last few days was swirling with contradictory information of how the exit would occur
The spokesman’s comments came after Philip Hammond, chancellor, backed away from suggestions that the UK would be a deregulated, low-cost competitor to the EU after Brexit, telling a French newspaper that Britain planned to remain “recognisably European” after it left the EU.
you can't have your cake and eat it too…