‘It’s impossible’: how Brexit has left British families unable to return to the UK

Up to 40% of Britons in dual-national relationships likely to want to return fear they do not fulfil the income requirement

• What will change for Britons in the EU on 1 January?

When Britain’s new immigration bill became law earlier this month, the home secretary, Priti Patel, tweeted her “delight, after many years of campaigning,” that free movement between the EU and Britain would at last end on 31 December.

But the bill does not just repeal EU citizens’ right to work and live in UK – a key Brexit ask – or British nationals’ right to do the same across the bloc. It will also make it very hard indeed for many Britons who have already moved to ever come home again.

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