‘UK-EU free movement will end with Brexit’

Free movement of people between the EU and UK will end in March 2019, UK government ministers have said. From that date EU workers moving to the UK will have to register, at least until a permanent post-Brexit immigration policy is put in place. But Home Secretary Amber Rudd has sought to reassure business there […]

Free movement of people between the EU and UK will end in March 2019, UK government ministers have said.

From that date EU workers moving to the UK will have to register, at least until a permanent post-Brexit immigration policy is put in place.

But Home Secretary Amber Rudd has sought to reassure business there will not be a “cliff edge” in terms of employing foreign workers after Brexit.

She said policy would be evidence-based and take into account economic impact.

The CBI said businesses “urgently” needed to know what EU migration would look like, both in any “transitional” period after March 2019 and beyond.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Home Office minister Brandon Lewis said details of how the government would manage immigration after Brexit would be revealed in a white paper later this year, and that the immigration bill would go through Parliament in 2018.