The Scottish National Party has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to take the three million EU citizens living in the U.K. “out of limbo” and guarantee they can stay in Britain after Brexit, the Herald reported Thursday.
âThe uncertainty and damaging rhetoric we have seen from the U.K. government is driving away the top talent we need and it is forcing families to reconsider their future here,â Stephen Gethins, the SNP’s Europe spokesman, said in a letter to May.
âThe U.K. government must finally end its disgraceful treatment of EU nationals and give them the reassurance that they will be able to continue living and working in Scotland and elsewhere in the U.K.,â he wrote.
Gethins said uncertainty was harming the British economy.
May has previously said she wanted to allow EU nationals living in Britain before the Brexit vote to be able to remain in the country, as long as the EU affords British citizens living in the bloc the same privilege.