U-turn over plan to end freedom of movement on 31 October

Priti Patel during a visit to the Port of Dover last month. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PAThe government has been forced to scrap plans for a law that would end freedom of movement at midnight on 31 October in a no-deal scenario, according to reports.In a shift of policy, the home secretary, Priti Patel, had planned secondary legislation to stop freedom of movement for EU citizens into the UK, but has been forced to accept that the move could have landed the government in court.Her decisio