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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Brexit: thousands of Britons expelled from EU since end of transition period

Demonstrators in Berlin hold an EU flag during a rally against attempts to force through a no-deal Brexit in 2019
Demonstrators in Berlin hold an EU flag during a rally against attempts to force through a no-deal Brexit in 2019. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

More than 2,250 British citizens were ordered to leave EU member states between the end of the Brexit transition period and September last year, according to figures from the bloc’s statistical office.

Quarterly data published late last month by Eurostat shows a total of 2,285 UK nationals were expelled from 1 January 2021, when British citizens lost their free movement rights within the EU, until the third quarter of last year.

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