In
what looks superficially like an extremely rare exhibition of prescience from
the current government, Amber Rudd (when she was Home Secretary last April) promised
that the application process for citizens of the EU27 wanting to remain in the
UK would be “as easy as setting up an
online account at LK Bennett”. I’ll
admit that I had never heard of LK Bennett until the news yesterday that it
was going into administration, but at last it looks like the government is on
the verge of honouring one of its Brexit commitments. It is now extremely likely that the process
will indeed be as easy as setting up an online account with a defunct company –
and probably about as much use as well.
The
big unanswered question is whether the government has deliberately engineered
the company’s failure in order to honour its promise, or whether the promise is
coming true entirely by accident. No prizes
for guessing which I think is the likeliest.
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