09-07-2016, 11:12 PM
The U.K.'s Brexit minister gave an insight into how workers from the European Union (EU) would be treated in a post-Brexit Britain when he told lawmakers that EU employees would be allowed to remain — provided other countries afforded the same protection to British workers.
Brexit: EU citizens working in the UK can stay
David Davis was expressing his opinion rather than government policy when he said it would be unlikely for Britain to stay in the single market after Brexit negotiations, the prime minister’s spokeswoman has said. The secretary of state for exiting the EU told MPs on Monday that the government’s priority was securing restrictions to European migration, and conceded that there could be an economic price to pay for that.
David Davis's single market stance 'not government policy' | Politics | The Guardian