The PM is totally heartless in splitting up families

ONLY Fools and Horses star Patrick Murray is locked in a visa battle which has left his Thai bride and their young daughter banned from Britain.

The actor, who played Rodney Trotter’s pal Mickey Pearce, is separated from them by the Government’s minimum income rule for non-European spouses.

“It’s just heartbreaking,” Patrick, 61, said last night as he sat more than 6,000 miles apart from wife Anong, 36, and two-year-old daughter Josie.

“Theresa May changed the rules in 2012 when she was Home Secretary and basically didn’t take into account anybody who has children.

“Even Donald Trump said he doesn’t want to split up parents and their kids but the Prime Minister is heartless.

“She has decided that my child does not count and that we have to be separated.” Patrick married Anong in her home city Pattaya in 2014 and returned alone to the UK in April 2016.

Since then he has seen her and Josie once. That was three months ago when he flew out for a one-week holiday. The pair cannot legally enter the UK to live.

For his family to be fully reunited here, Patrick must prove that he has at least £22,400 in annual income or £62,500 in cash savings.

A non-European partner’s income does not count towards any threshold. Since BBC’s legendaryg y sitcom