The head of the National Federation of Housebuilders has warned the promise made yesterday by the prime minister that EU nationals in the UK would be able to stay after Brexit had to be translated into policy.

In his first appearance at the dispatch box as prime minister Boris Johnson said that EU citizens living and working in the UK would have “an absolute right to remain”, once the country departed the EU on 31 October.

But Richard Beresford, chief executive of the NFB said: “The government has made a number of ‘right to remain’ commitments to EU nationals but many workers remain uncertain about their future.

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