Don't use expats as Brexit 'bargaining chips', says EU chief Donald Tusk

Donald Tusk has responded icily to pressure from UK MPs on Brussels to begin talks about the status of EU citizens post-referendum, blaming Brexit and the British Government dragging its feet over Article 50. In a reply to a letter from 80 MPs, the President of the European Council suggested the parliamentarians were being hypocritical given the insistence of the Government to reject freedom of movement. Of the argument that the European Commission was creating uncertainty, Mr Tusk wrote: "It is