{"id":322041,"date":"2025-08-06T08:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322041\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:32:12","slug":"brexit-brit-speaks-out-on-humiliating-deportation-from-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322041\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit Brit speaks out on &#8216;humiliating&#8217; deportation from Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                        This week&#8217;s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ subscribers features an interview with Nigel Davies, a British citizen who was recently deported from Sweden after missing a post-Brexit deadline.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s episode, our Nordic editor Richard Orange speaks to Nigel Davies, a 63 year old British national who was seized by Swedish police and locked up on two separate occasions for days at a time this year, first in February and then in July.<\/p>\n<p>He was escorted onto a plane and deported last month after earlier missing a deadline to apply for post-Brexit residency.<\/p>\n<p>Richard spoke to him in July, a week after his deportation, when he was briefly back in Sweden to clear out his home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Membership+ subscribers can listen to the interview in the latest episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/podcasts\/sweden-in-focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sweden in Focus Extra<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Get Membership+ to listen to all The Local&#8217;s podcasts<\/p>\n<p>Sweden in Focus Extra is a podcast for The Local&#8217;s Membership+ subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to Membership+ now and get early, ad-free access to a full-length episode of the Sweden in Focus podcast every weekend, as well as Sweden in Focus Extra every Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit the link that applies to you and get a 40% discount on Membership+<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Membership+ in our <a href=\"https:\/\/thelocalhelp.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/16441205771805-What-is-The-Local-Membership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Already have Membership+ but not receiving all the episodes? Go to the podcast tab on your account page to activate your subscription on a podcast platform. If you prefer to listen on the site, you can find all episodes at the bottom of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/podcasts\/sweden-in-focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ subscribers features an interview with Nigel Davies, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114980896504008881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}