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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 1 March 2017

UK: EU citizens won’t lose rights without Parliament’s OK

JILL LAWLESS Brexit. But she can’t do that until
Associated Press Opposition peers hope to Parliament passes legisla-
LONDON (AP) — The Brit- amend a bill authorizing tion sanctioning the move.
ish government promised the start of EU exit talks to The House of Commons
Tuesday that it won’t strip include the promise, and approved the bill earlier
European Union nationals have enlisted the support this month and the Lords is
of any rights without law- of some parliamentarians scrutinizing it this week.
makers’ approval, as it tries from the governing Con- If Lords amend the bill, it
to persuade Parliament servatives. will have to go back to
to authorize the start of di- In an attempt to prevent the House of Commons for
vorce talks with the bloc. the authorization bill’s de- another vote, delaying its
By leaving the EU, Britain will feat, Home Secretary Am- passage and potentially
be withdrawing from the ber Rudd wrote to mem- threatening May’s time-
bloc’s policy of free move- bers of the House of Lords table.
ment of citizens among saying “nothing will change A growing number of politi-
member states. That leaves for any EU citizen, whether Boris Johnson at the British Chambers of Commerce Annual cians and business groups
3 million EU nationals in Brit- already resident in the U.K. Conference 2017 in central London, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. are warning that the
ain, and 1 million Britons liv- or moving from the EU, with- The British Chambers of Commerce said the break from the EU schedule already is tight.
ing in other member coun- out Parliament’s approval.” should be delayed if a trade deal remains incomplete after two Former Prime Minister John
tries, in limbo. But the letter offers no years. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP) Major warned Monday
Parliament’s upper cham- guarantees of EU citizens’ that the goal of agreeing
ber, the House of Lords, right to remain, saying only plans to trigger Article 50 of two years of exit negotia- on divorce terms within
plans to try Wednes- that the issue would be a the EU’s key treaty, starting tions, by March 31. two years is “very, very op-
day to pass a guarantee top priority once formal exit timistic.” q
that EU citizens would be talks start.
able to stay in Britain after Prime Minister Theresa May

Farage calls for the ouster of

his party’s only UK lawmaker

LONDON (AP) — Former Some UKIP members are at
U.K. Independence Party odds with the flamboyant
leader Nigel Farage is call- Farage, who put immigra-
ing for the ouster of the par- tion at the center of the
ty’s only lawmaker in Parlia- successful campaign for
ment, as internal squab- Britain to leave the EU. He
bling threatens to split the stepped down as leader
right-wing anti-EU party. after last year’s referen-
Farage says in an article for dum but retains a high pro-
Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph file and has made several
newspaper that Douglas trips to the United States
Carswell has sought to di- to meet President Donald
vide and damage UKIP, Trump.
and “the time for him to go Trump has suggested that
is now.” Farage should be Britain’s
The newspaper also pub- ambassador to the U.S.
lished what it described Carswell appeared to
as leaked emails between make light of the dispute
Carswell and a party of- late Monday, tweeting:
ficial suggesting Carswell “Knight night.”
made only a half-hearted If Farage wanted to raise
attempt to get Farage a any concerns with UKIP
knighthood. In one, Car- members of Parliament,
swell suggested Farage Carswell said Tuesday he’d
should get a lesser honor, be happy to respond. “It
“for services to headline won’t take long, it’s just
writers.” me,” Carswell said.q