Priti Patel today publishes tough new measures which will ban EU criminals entering Britain from January 1 and remove rough sleepers. Offenders will no longer get special treatment if they are EU nationals. Existing EU rules mean Britain can only prevent EU criminals entering if they present a serious and current threat. Miss Patel said: 'For too long, EU rules have forced us to allow dangerous foreign criminals, who abuse our values and threaten our way of life, onto our streets. 'The UK will be safer thanks to firmer and fairer border controls where foreign criminals regardless of nationality will be subject to the same criminality rules.'

Source: Daily Mail October 21, 2020 21:30 UTC