“Up to 15,000 children in the UK have already grown up as ‘Skype kids’ in order to keep in contact with one of their parents, campaigners warn.
Thousands more Britons will be barred from bringing their foreign husbands and wives to the UK, under plans in the Conservative manifesto.
The next Tory government would hike the minimum income requirement already attacked as “particularly harsh” by Supreme Court justices.
The current threshold to bring in spouses of £18,600, introduced by Theresa May as Home Secretary, has been blamed for inflicting a harsh choice of separation or living in exile on British families. In 2015, it was estimated that the £18,600 threshold excludes 41 per cent of the British working population from bringing a foreign spouse to live in Britain, including 55 per cent of women.”
Another thing the rich do not want us to have besides food, housing etc: love, parents and partners.
Tory manifesto: Thousands of foreign spouses to be barred entry to UK as income limit increased
