May's Brexit offer to EU citizens leaves many cold

London

BACK from Brussels with a hard-fought Brexit deal, Prime Minister Theresa May wrote an open letter to the three million citizens of other European Union states living in Britain.

"I know our country would be poorer if you left and I want you to stay," she wrote after striking the initial agreement, which promises to secure their British residency rights after Brexit and allows the negotiations to move onto trade relations.

But for some EU nationals - who have endured uncertainty over their rights since the Brexit vote in June 2016, not to mention an unpleasant feeling that many Britons do not want them around - Mrs May's Dec 8 deal is too little, too late.

It's too late to keep German nurse Daniela Jones in the chronically short-staffed National Health Service (NHS)…