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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lisa O’Carroll Senior correspondent

‘We need a touch of humanity’: Swedish opposition pledges to help Britons facing deportation

Joyce Thomas portrait
Joyce Thomas, 78, has told how she is ‘sick’ with worry at the prospect of having to leave her home and family. Photograph: Felix Andler

A leading Swedish opposition party has promised an urgent reprieve for British nationals facing deportation from the country over Brexit administrative issues.

Niels Paarup-Petersen, the migration spokesperson for the Centre party, said it would introduce laws to end the suffering of people such as the 78-year-old British widow Joyce Thomas if, as polls project, it forms a new centre-left coalition after the general election in 10 days’ time. Thomas has been told to leave by next Wednesday after 21 years in Sweden.

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