The Rights of EU Citizens in Wales

Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General – in the Senedd at 2:29 pm on 24 October 2018.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 2:29, 24 October 2018

I thank the Counsel General for his very comprehensive response to Helen Mary Jones and I agreed with every word of it. It's lamentable that the United Kingdom Government has not taken the moral high ground in this respect. It would have been quite easy for the UK Government, unilaterally, to guarantee the rights of EU citizens lawfully living and working in the United Kingdom, regardless of the EU Commission's view. They, clearly, want to treat people as bargaining chips in the negotiating process, which I think is quite wrong. UKIP fought the recent general elections, and indeed the Assembly election, on a basis of giving such a guarantee to EU citizens living and working in Wales, and my party will give every possible support to the Counsel General and the Welsh Government in its further pressure on the UK Government to do the decent thing.