Gove to offer three million EU nationals British passports
The environment secretary, who threw his hat into the ring for the Tory leadership at the weekend, will make the offer to EU nationals who were living in the UK at the time of the June 2016 referendum.
The £1,330 naturalisation fee would be waived as a gesture of goodwill, Michael Gove's aides confirmed to Sky News.
There are understood to be three million EU citizens in the UK who would be eligible, once they have been resident for five years.
The proposal to be formally unveiled next week is a victory for Conservative MP Alberto Costa who has been campaigning for the rights of EU citizens post-Brexit for many months.
The Home Office's settled status scheme, under which EU citizens must prove they have lived in the UK for five years or they stand to lose their ri...