LONDON Aug 26 PA - Britain and Australia should set up a "free labour mobility zone" to end an "outrageous and indefensible" discrimination that puts European Union workers before Commonwealth nationals, London Mayor Boris Johnson said.
He said it was time to recognise the "immense opportunities" of striking stronger links with fast-growing economies rather than within the "microclimate of economic gloom" that Europe had become because of the single currency.
He said the UK should tell Brussels to "stuff it" if it objected to the move - inspired by an Australian teacher who says she was forced to leave London.
The senior Tory, who is holidaying in Australia, was given a letter by Australian Sally Roycroft, who had been working in London schools.
Mr Johnson has written in his Daily Telegraph column, Ms Roycroft was "effectively kicked out of Britain" for not being from the EU.
"She is Australian and she has been told to bog off by the authorities in our country because it was, they said, too much of a palaver to go through the business of 'sponsoring' her to stay."
He suggests it was the consequence of joining the European Community.
But while the EU was losing influence in the world and suffering economic woes, there was big growth in those countries "snootily disregarded" in 1973.
Suggesting the proposal should form part of Prime Minister David Cameron's promised renegotiation of the UK's relationship with Brussels, Mr Johnson said: "We need to raise our eyes beyond Europe, forging and intensifying links with countries that are going to be growing in the decades ahead - countries that offer immense opportunities for British goods, people, services and capital.
"And you could not do better than by starting with Australia," he said.
"We British are more deeply connected with the Australians - culturally and emotionally - than with any other country on earth."
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