OPPOSITION politicians have hit out at a Home Office campaign to accuse it of browbeating EU nationals into registering in the UK.

A 43 second video spread on social media featured cheery music and pictures of smiling people to give details of the EU settlement scheme.

It also laid out charges of £65 for an adult and £32.50 for children that must be paid for them to stay in the UK.

As well as being branded a rip off, some also accused the campaign of carrying a veiled threat to deport the EU citizens if they failed to register.

The scheme – which will be fully operational by March 30 - will check the identity, residence status and criminal record of all EU citizens living in the UK.

Senior Labour MP branded the adverts “all part of a nasty, closed-minded, closed-country attitude”.

The SNP’s immigration spokesman Stuart McDonald MP said: “These adverts highlight the horrible consequences of Brexit and Theresa May’s obsession with ending free movement of people – both are grave mistakes”.

Labour’s shadow home secretary Diane Abbott added: “The Home Office attempts to process the over 3 million EU nationals entitled to register under settlement scheme is a disaster waiting to happen”.