AP reports that Britain will not offer European Union citizens preferential immigration status after Brexit, the government said Tuesday, announcing a system designed to give migrants with skills the U.K. needs priority over low-skilled migrants.
At present, all EU nationals can live and work in Britain under the bloc’s free-movement rules, but that will change after the U.K. departs next year.
Announcing Britain’s biggest immigration changes in a generation, Prime Minister Theresa May noted that the new system “ends freedom of movement once and for all” a key government promise on Brexit.
“For the first time in decades, it will be this country that controls and chooses who we want to come here,” she added.
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