Swedish Lawmaker Wants to Stop Deporting Elderly British Residents Who Missed a Brexit Deadline

Swedish Lawmaker Wants to Stop Deporting Elderly British Residents Who Missed a Brexit Deadline

After Brexit, British citizens living in Sweden faced a deadline to apply for residency. Some missed it. Now Swedish MP Håkan Svenneling wants deportations stopped, citing Joyce Thomas, 78, a widow of 21 years, and Horace Mason, 74, who has dementia and Parkinson's and needs full-time care. Svenneling argues sending them home breaks the UK-EU divorce deal and damages relations.

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