Observations

Yes, citizenships are only part of the story of Brexit, but they are at least an indicator. The fact that so few British people felt like actually changing their citizenship (rather than just talking about it) in the year of Brexit tells a story in and of itself.

Let’s not forget that by 2020 - the year for which the EU has just released the latest citizenship data – people had three years in which to make up their minds and pack their bags. Yet tiny numbers of the doom-mongers of the Remainer-Rejoiner movement decided to depart for the Brussels mothership.

In the case of most British people already resident in EU countries, there was of course no need to renounce their citizenship in order to continue as legal residents in their EU country of choice. That said, if these people are so enamoured of the EU in preference to their country of birth, one might have expected a few more of them to have done so.

The myth of free movement for the British people

It must also be remembered that there are far fewer UK citizens resident in EU27 countries than EU27 citizens resident in the UK, as we have shown in many reports. The EU benefited far more from free movement – by a factor of 6 to 1 – than did the UK.

In a forthcoming report we will be presenting the official data on EU27 citizens in the UK, compared to UK citizens in the EU.

We continue to believe that facts like ones which we have shown above – from official EU sources – are important.

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There is a continued and concerted campaign to take the UK back into the European Union and it is essential to take these people on. At the same time we have large numbers of senior civil servants seemingly intent on preventing laws in the UK diverging from those in the EU, thereby making rejoining much easier.

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