Mark Reckless has landed himself in the soup over comments he made at hustings last night about what might happen to EU migrants if Britain quit the EU. First reported in the The Guardian, the following exchange was captured on ITV Meridian last night:
Q: ‘What would happen Mark Reckless if we left the European Union. What would happen for instance to the Polish plumber who lives in Rochester. Would he be able to stay, would he have to go back?’
Reckless: ‘Well, I think in the near term we’d have to have a transitional period, and I think we should probably allow people who are currently here to have a work permit at least for a fixed period.’
Q: ‘Forgive me, if there's a Polish plumber who for instance has got a house, got a family, got kids at a local school, are you going to deport him and his family?’
Reckless: ‘I think people who have been here a long time and integrated in that way I think we’d want to look sympathetically at.
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