Sweden confirms 458 Britons deported or forcibly removed since Brexit

John Sellers, deported after living in Sweden since age 10, with his wife Caroline, who says people need to know how Brexit has ‘crushed families’. Photograph: John Sellers

Sweden has confirmed 458 British citizens have been deported or forcibly removed by police since Brexit.

It is the first time the scale of the deportations of citizens who failed to secure residency in Sweden post-Brexit has been made public and comes amid mounting criticism of a cruel and hardline approach to Britons who had chosen to make the country their home before Brexit.