The Independent - 19.08.2019

MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2019 WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

Peter Reid

We must stop the class

war of no deal

Lizzie Dearden

PM’s police plan will

not rectify cuts

Bel Trew

Trump views Israel as a

political football

Jonathan Liew

Sheer frustration for

England in the Test

Wedding suicide bomber kills 63

The explosion also injured more than 180 people at the festivities in the Afghan capital, Kabul

Free movement will end ‘on

day one of Brexit’

Priti Patel rips up Home Office plans despite warnings of chaos

ROB MERRICK

DEPUTY POLITICAL

EDITOR

Free movement for EU

citizens will end on day one of

a no-deal Brexit, under new

Home Office plans – despite

warnings of chaos and of

people trapped in legal limbo.

Priti Patel, the new hardline

home secretary, is pressing for

border restrictions to be

imposed immediately on 31

October, even though no

replacement system is ready,

The Independent has been told.

Previously, ministers had

intended to delay scrapping

free movement until new

rules are in place, with a bill

stuck in the Commons

and rows over what those

rules should be. The Lib

Dems condemned the

acceleration as “brutal”,

saying that Ms Patel was

“detached from reality”.