SCOTTISH TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has said she is “fed up with going away to Europe and apologising” about Brexit.
During an interview with Times Radio, Kelly hit out at queues at passport control post-Brexit, saying she almost missed a flight.
Speaking with host Hugo Rifkind, she explained that during a holiday in Spain, she said the queues at passport control were “awful”.
“I’m fed up with going away to Europe and apologising…you feel embarrassed.”
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Rifkind joked that his wife and children have German passports and so he has to wait behind as a “shamed Brit”.
The host then put it to Kelly that those who voted for Brexit should have known things would be different.
While the UK voted around 52% in favour of leaving the EU during the Brexit referendum, 62% of those who voted in Scotland said they wanted to remain.
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Kelly said: “They didn’t know. They didn’t know when they voted, as we know. I mean, we’ve gone over this many times.
“I mean people were lied to, people weren’t given the facts. The people on the other side should have actually made better arguments and all the rest of it.
“And that’s kind of gone. What is encouraging is that maybe they might be able to do something about it just to kind of get round it a little bit because, you know, I’m fed up of going away to Europe and kind of apologising you know.
“You feel embarrassed.”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer (above) has previously said he does not see the UK rejoining the European single market or customs union in his lifetime.
Kelly added that she had previously attended Scotland’s opening game against Germany at Euro 2024, joking that it was “brilliant until the football started”.
“But coming back though, again, we nearly missed our flight because they had all this and it’s this kind of segregation and you feel like some kind of Untermensch,” she said.
“You know that you’re standing in this other queue for ages and then you have to go up to a different place to get your passport looked at and all the rest of it.
“And it’s just awful and it’s going backwards. So hopefully, hopefully we might be able to actually do something about it.
“Because maybe these rules aren’t written in stone like we thought they were. And maybe there’s a way round this.
“And if there’s a degree of willingness which I think there probably is on behalf of this government, I hope, that we might be able to sort that out and we might actually start getting kids back here that want to do some work and we welcome them.”
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