The Telegraph seeks to reassure fearful European employees over Brexit
The Telegraph has felt compelled to email all of its European employees insisting that they remain ‘welcome’, despite the paper taking a prominent role in the ultimately successful campaign to leave the European Union.
Sensing disquiet amongst staff from the continent, chief executive Murdoch MacLennan wrote that Europeans ‘continue to be very welcome at the Telegraph.’
Despite exhorting its readers to vote out MacLennan is keen to show that the business will remain inclusive, stating: “Let me repeat again that all our colleagues working for the Telegraph from across the EU and EEA will continue to be welcomes as valued members of our team, and as part of the energetic and dynamic business we are all working so hard to create.”
While future immigration rules have yet to be laid down MacLennan vowed to ‘fully support’ any affected employees to ‘manage the situation’.
Prime Minister Theresa May has come under pressure to guarantee a right to remain for European citizens already in the UK, but has held off doing so pending similar guarantees for British citizens living in Europe.