I agree with that position, but I believe the Government could go further and make a unilateral declaration. These people live in our midst, they are our
friends and our neighbours, they work in our public services, they are contributing to our economy, and I believe that people who are exercising their treaty rights today should be allowed to stay. They have made their lives in this country with every expectation that that would be the permanent position, and I think it would be magnanimous of the Government to give way now.
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