Lionel Laurent, Columnist

EU Nationals Can't Trust Brexiters on Migration

Insults, humiliation, kafkaesque bureaucracy and the U.K.’s history are all red flags.

September 3, 2019 at 1:00 AM EDT

Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist writing about the future of money and the future of Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for Reuters and Forbes.

Protests against Boris Johnson.
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As crowds gathered last week to protest U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament ahead of Brexit, a distraught woman pushed her way in front of the cameras to voice her fears of being kicked out of the country.

“I’m Portuguese and I’ve worked here for 20 years,” she said, explaining that her bid to register for the right to stay had been refused. “I looked after your children, I looked after the elderly of this country. Now you kick me out.”

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