TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2019

Ending free movement will

cripple the health service

Priti Patel is adding to no-deal chaos with her dangerous border restrictions (Getty)

ED DAVEY

A top mandarin like the BBC’s infamous Sir Humphrey has probably already told the

new home secretary that her plans to impose new border restrictions on 27

neighbouring European countries in 72 days are “brave, minister”.

Yet since this particular Whitehall farce is real-life and will affect everyone in our country and beyond, what
Priti Patel has also probably been told is, “Minister, your plans are dangerous, impractical and maybe illegal,

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