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U.K. Independence Party member Mark Reckless has come under fire on Wednesday following his suggestion that European Union migrants living in Britain could be subjected to deportation.
Yesterday, Labour party had announced its draconian plans to strip EU migrants of benefits. And within hours of the revelation, Ukip’s Rochester candidate has announced they would simply choose to deport them instead.
On the eve of the Rochester and Strood by-election, when Mr Reckless was asked in an interview what would happen to EU migrants already living and working in Britain if the U.K. chose to leave the EU in a future referendum, he suggested that they would be looked at “sympathetically” but should only be allowed to remain in the U.K. for “a transitional period” before being asked to leave.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said: “To hear the language of repatriation coming from someone Ukip hope will be their second MP is shameful. It’s a policy that comes straight out of the last BNP manifesto.”
However, UKIP leader Nigel Farage has dismissed the claims that his party supports deporting existing EU migrants while insisting that UKIP respected the “rule of law and British justice”. Also, he has downplayed the comments as a “minor cause for confusion”.
And when Mr Reckless was asked later whether he was suggesting that EU migrants should be deported, he has denied and said: “No, I was not suggesting that.”
He has contradicted his earlier statement and said that EU citizens legally residing in the U.K. at the time the country left the EU would be able to stay in the country and accused Conservative critics of “twisting” his words and giving them a different meaning.
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