New UK immigration rules: would home secretary’s family have been separated?

James Cleverly's mother was a foreign-born NHS worker. Now he is making it harder for people in her situation to stay in Britain

Would James Cleverly's parents have been forced to choose between separating or leaving the UK had they been subject to the new immigration rules the home secretary announced on Monday 4 December?

Many of the millions of people in the UK whose partners or parents were born overseas have been asking themselves a similar question over the past few days.