The Brexit to-do list is the length of a constantly unravelling ball of string. One of the many items on that list is deciding what the post-Brexit immigration system will look like. On Tuesday, we caught a glimpse of recent thinking at one of the key departments responsible, the Home Office. Essentially, those responsible for the 82 page proposal, dated August 2017, want to sever ties between the UK and EU.
There are concessions in the paper. It is accepted that different rules should be applied to EU citizens compared to other migrants, at least to begin with. The full bureaucracy of the points-based system and Appendix FM for family members would not be brought immediately to bear, for example.
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