Of course. I thank my hon. Friend for what he has done to protect the rights not just, obviously, of his parents but of the 3.2 million —and of the 1.3 million UK nationals living and working in the rest of the European Union. It is self-evidently in the interests of our friends and partners on the other side of the channel that they should give symmetrical protections, and I am sure that they will. But I think the House would agree that it is also incumbent on us to look after the rights of the people who have lived, worked, dwelt among us and made their lives here, and that is what we are doing.
Priorities for Government
Proceeding contribution from
Boris Johnson
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 25 July 2019.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Priorities for Government.
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