Rajoy issues dire warning over Brexit

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has issued a dire warning to British expats; a Brexit vote could mean losing the automatic right to live and work in Spain.

Mariano Rajoy said the consequences of leaving the EU would be “negative for everybody”, but that British citizens – more then 400,000 of whom live and work in Spain – would in particular lose out.

However leave campaigners have dismissed his comments.

Within the European Union, EU citizens have the right to move and work in any EU country.