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Monique Hawkins, a Dutch woman who highlighted the plight of EU citizens when she revealed last December she had been asked to “prepare to leave” the country after 24 years, said she was “heartened” to hear so many moving and inspiring speeches.

She said she was concerned that the amendment however would not cover stay-at-home parents, carers, disabled and students who decided to continue their lives in Britain but did not take out health insurance when they arrived in the country.