European citizens living in the United Kingdom, “hostages” to the government led by Theresa May, who is willing to use them as “bargaining chips” to protect the rights of British people living in Europe at all costs. Clifford Longley, Catholic, former religious correspondent for the “Times” and the “Daily Telegraph”, has no doubts. “By stopping the legislation that would enable Theresa May to invoke article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, and by asking the Government to add an amendment that makes sure that, within three months of starting divorcing the EU, the Europeans who live here have the same right of abode as the British people, the Lords want to avoid that people who have been living here for years and are British citizens to all intents and purposes may be afraid of being expelled or may be inhumanly treated”, Longley says to SIR. “A situation that the Europeans who live here find very stressful”. “The nearly three million European citizens who live in Great Britain are not ‘foreigners’. They have made a huge contribution to our society and to our economy. Threatening to take off their right of above is immoral and not very British”, Longley goes on. The Brexit legislation, defeated yesterday by the House of Lords, is now back to the House to Commons, where the MPs can now grant or turn down the amendment put forward by the Lords. The rights of European citizens who live in the United Kingdom could stop or hold back the Brexit law as in a sort of ping pong between Westminster’s two Houses.