Must we Leave?

Theresa May’s speech yesterday again failed to give any concrete assurances on the rights of EU citizens living in the UK after Brexit.

I still don’t know whether the chosen path will tear apart my family, and many others, because my German husband, an Nhs doctor who has served the British people night and day for 16 years, will have to leave.

If this happens, it will wreck the lives of our two vulnerable, adopted children. We can’t easily just up sticks, abandon our jobs, homes and schools and leave.

surely, it wasn’t the intention of Leave voters that thousands of innocent families would be shattered by their vote?

I would ask them to call for a swift, fair solution — one that doesn’t require us to fill in a nightmarish 85-page form, gather an impossible amount of detail on things such as all our overseas trips over the past five years, or face threatening letters from the immigration office (as many already have).

Britain chose this path and I believe it’s up to Britain to take the lead on this, whatever decision other EU nations make on the equally uncertain and troubling fate of Britons living and working in them. CAROL MAJOR, address supplied.