A vote to leave the European Union is set to trigger an exodus of British expatriates from the continent, an investigation by The Times has found. Every day a hundred British residents of Spain leave the country as economic woes grip the Mediterranean. Uncertainty over the future of healthcare benefits and the value of the state pension if Britain withdraws will bring a further increase in the number returning home, experts have predicted. Officials in France have said that thousands of Britons there could lose their right to public healthcare if the UK left the union. The flight of expatriates from the EU means that there is now a huge and growing disparity between the number of Britons who live in Europe and the number of Europeans who live in Britain. All countries in the EU except France, Spain and Luxembourg now have more of their population in t

A European manhunt for the surviving terrorist of the Brussels bombings was intensified yesterday after Belgium’s embattled police force admitted they had arrested the wrong man. In a fresh setback for Belgium’s security services, prosecutors were yesterday forced to release the Belgian man they had believed to be the suicide bombers’ accomplice and concede that the main suspect for last week’s attacks remained at large. The death toll from last week’s attacks has risen to 35 after four people succumbed to their injuries in hospital, Maggie De Block, the Belgian Health Minister, said yesterday.The toll excludes the three suicide bombers who also died after bombs were detonated at Zaventem airport and on the Brussels metro. In a sign of the violence of the explosion, three of the victims have yet to be identified, Mrs De Block said. Security offic