The government's temporary visa plan has been welcomed by the Home Secretary, it has been reported.
A spokesperson for Ms Patel explained; "Her instinct is to keep all foreigners out of Britain - she still remembers the look on her parents' faces when the border police escorted them to the the airport - so she was cautious about the temporary visa scheme when she first heard about it. But when they told her the visa expires on Christmas Eve, she had a vision of of festive police vans arriving outside people's homes on Christmas morning that gave her a smile she hasn't lost yet."