THE House of Lords just voted in favour of all Europeans from the EU who live here retaining their rights to stay be employed and claim benefits.

Almost straightaway a Dutch minister spoke up and said Britons in Europe should be treated the same.

It takes two to tango.

I hope the European politicians now go further and start admitting the EU needed reform all along just as we said.

Who knows, if they do show a willingness to reform maybe at this 11th hour we can call off Brexit altogether in the way Boris Johnson himself once predicted.

Nigel Boddy, Darlington.