UK universities plea for May to guarantee rights of EU citizens
Some of the UK’s most venerable universities, including Oxford, say EU colleagues are making arrangements to leave in the absence of any Brexit guarantees
London — University of Oxford bosses have said Britain should guarantee the rights of EU citizens after Brexit or Britain’s oldest university could suffer enormous damage as academics leave. On Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May will try to rally the House of Commons to back the bill that would empower her to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. But first she is seeking to persuade legislators to overturn the amendments added to it by the House of Lords that would guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK, and give parliament a binding vote on whatever she negotiates with the EU. Some in her own Conservative party are considering backing at least one of those tweaks and Brexit secretary David Davis took to the airwaves on Sunday to press them not to do so in the interest of giving May a free hand in the upcoming talks. "Please don’t tie the prime minister’s hands," Davis told the BBC. If May can get the bill passed swiftly, will she pull the trigger? She could, in the...
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