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June 2023

  • Tim Heymerdinger, in a baseball cap and T-shirt reading "Bad seed", sits on a sawn-off tree looking serious

    ‘The UK today doesn’t feel like my country’: six Britons who moved to the EU reflect on expat life post-Brexit

    The EU referendum was held seven years ago this week, transforming the lives of Britons who had made their home on the continent. But how did the vote change their view of the UK – and themselves?

July 2021

  • A Barclays bank branch logo in London

    Consumer champions
    Barclays refuses to hand over £4,000 after Brexit account closure

    My mother in Italy was told her account was to be closed after 40 years. Now she can’t retrieve the balance

July 2020

  • The Empire Windrush arriving from Jamaica in 1948.

    Frozen pensions: injustices faced by Windrush generation in spotlight

    Campaigners urge new working group to look into why some retirees living abroad are penalised

September 2017

  • Pensioners Barbara, left, and Pauline at the Eagle Cafe Bar in Benalmadena, Spain

    British expats face 'cliff edge' in pensions and insurance after Brexit

    Minister calls for urgent action to ensure British pensioners in EU do not find payments stopped after Brexit

August 2017

  • A British flag in Spain. ‘The golden age of British retirees heading to the Costas is probably over,’ said a migration expert.

    Brexit: UK retirees rushing to settle in Europe, say financial advisers

    One company says monthly inquiries to its website have doubled in a year amid fears moving to Europe will become more difficult

October 2016

  • A voter placing a ballot paper in a ballot box

    Expat voting rights are useless if we lose our rights to live and work abroad

    Letters: It is a pretty bad joke for the government to offer lifetime voting rights to expatriates at the precise time when its own policy endangers the future of those of us who live elsewhere in the EU

July 2016

  • Retired woman living in Costa Blanca Spain New house sales slide headline in local English newspaper 2004<br>A3JE89 Retired woman living in Costa Blanca Spain New house sales slide headline in local English newspaper 2004

    Falling pound hits British pensioners living overseas

    Some retirees could be forced to return to the UK after the dramatic drop in the value of sterling after Brexit vote

June 2016

  • Joe Lewis, pensioner

    Frozen pension: the RAF veteran facing a chilling choice in Canada

    At 90, Joe Lewis could return to the UK for his full state pension – without his sick wife who’s in care. Or he could sell his home to try and make ends meet

May 2016

  • RBS and NatWest

    RBS and NatWest to stop offering mortgages to British expats

    From 19 May, banks’ new policy will require applicants to be resident in the UK in order to be eligible for a mortgage

March 2016

  • Man and woman in beach attire strolling along the promenade in Benidorm, Spain

    EU referendum reality check
    Will Brexit mean a Brit expat exodus?

  • People riding on British pound banknotes in sky above city.

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: Why do expats earn more than the rest of us?

February 2016

  • Caroline Lucas

    Why we must reform rules on frozen overseas pensions

    Caroline Lucas
  • Richard Hyde receiving his OBE

    Is this the start of a thaw for frozen state pensions?

August 2015

  • Keith Vaz

    Frozen pensions: why I believe the rules are unfair

    If I retire to my ancestral home in India, my UK pension rights will be stripped from me
  • elderly couple in spain

    Hope for expats in UK pensions ‘lottery’

    Pensioners living abroad denied inflation linked rises can take heart from the rise of Jeremy Corbyn
  • Germany, Berlin, East Berlin district of Kreuzberg, the famous fast food Hamburger Burgermeister

    Creative young Brits are quitting London for affordable Berlin

    More and more burnt-out Londoners are embracing the laid-back cool – and much lower cost of living – of the German capital

July 2014

  • Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards

    London now rated 12th most expensive city for expats

    Birmingham, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Belfast also shoot up the rankings thanks to a strong pound and surging property prices

January 2013

  • Tapas bar, Spain

    The weak pound: what it means at home and abroad

    Amid warnings that the pound could face sustained pressure on the foreign exchange market, Patrick Collinson examines the impact

December 2012

  • Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens Harbour Bridge

    Where do UK expats live?
    UK expat experiences – a round up

  • US, Asheville expat photo

    Where do UK expats live?
    UK expats: the view from their windows – in pictures

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