The move, heavily criticised, would contradict PM Johnson’s previous promises and, as the latest ONS figures show, affect the lives of citizens from across the continent, as well as endangering the freedom of UK citizens in the EU at the time of the country’s disorderly exit.

In 2018, the largest group of EU citizens in the UK were born in Poland (905,000).

This article and chart originally appeared on the blog of the statistics firm Statista, and is republished here with permission.