Theresa May says on Monday that she hopes to reach an early agreement on the status of Polish citizens in the UK with Poland, as her government prepares to leave the European Union. May said she had reiterated her plan to guarantee the rights of Poles and other EU citizens currently living in Britain, so long as the rights of British citizens living across the EU were also guaranteed. Her Polish counterpart Beata Szydło said that the rights of Poles living in Britain were “the most important matter” in any Brexit discussions