SIR - With Brexit looming, score of EU NHS workers have made the decision to return home rather than face the uncertainty of the near future and the same goes for workers in other fields.

We're facing a shortage of labour in a lot of key areas which will have a profound effect on on our public services.

Now we discover the Government has been treating our own citizens with utter contempt by throwing away their immigration records, leaving them, as far as the home office is concerned, stateless.

Immigrants from the Caribbean came here after the war as British subjects to help us rebuild and brought along their children to settle here.

Several years ago, the home office, run by Theresa May, decided to crack down on illegal immigrants and forced employers to make checks on all employees` status. Many of the so-called Windrush generation had no official entry papers. Will anyone from another country ever trust us again?

Colin Durkin, Moffat Close, Bradford