Hello, this is The Spectator podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast.

This week saw world leaders assemble at the G7 summit in Beirits, where Donald Trump

insisted that Boris Johnson is the right man for the job delivering Brexit.

But as reports emerge of long-term resident EU nationals being

denied permanent residency, we ask, has the president's anti-immigrant rhetoric rubbed off on

the Prime Minister? We also talk about the ongoing fires in the Amazon, and finally we ask

what's really behind skyrocketing homelessness. First, is Boris Johnson living up to his promises to EU nationals?

For all the assurances that their lives will not be disrupted by Brexit,

it seems that with Boris at its helm, the new government's policy towards EU nationals

has been a little more hostile environment than liberal conservatism.

In this week's cover piece, Fraser Nelson finds that an alarming number of long-term

resident EU nationals are being wrongfully denied permanent residency.

He argues that this is a portrayal not only of Britain's duty to its citizens, but of the PM's

own values.

Fraser joins me now to discuss alongside Sunda Kutwala, the but of the PM's own values. Fraser joins me now to discuss alongside Sunder

Kutwalha, the director of the identity and integration think tank British future.

Fraser, your cover this week looks at the confusion over Boris's immigration policy for EU immigrants.

Can you start by explaining to listeners why you think things have become so unclear at this

stage?

Well, it's striking that when the spectator backed Brexit, when Boris Johnson was arguing for Brexit,

it was very clear, or made very clear, but this wasn't a little England agenda. This wasn't

about hoisting the drawbridge up. This wasn't about, as Boris Johnson himself put it, standing on the cliffs of

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