You reckon The Sun could be talking bollocks or, is it a bit of grievance mongering? Us drafting legislation which will break international law is OK though? Stuff comes at you fast eh?
If it happens then we'll negotiate something in due course I'd guess. Nobody would be stupid enough to consciously damage their own economy would they?
What on earth are you banging on about? The negotiation for the policy had already been concluded on the basis of reciprocity. The only change that the UK made was stopping the use of EU ID cards to enter the UK from October 2021. But, crucially, EU ID cards cannot be used to go through the e-Gates anyway and, given that the UK ID card scheme was scrapped in January 2011, we were not denying ourselves anything.
Finally, the Commission were initially supportive about this revised UK position because it was another way of putting pressure on Greece, Italy and Romania (and, to a lesser extent, France) to get their ID documents sorted out i.e. your lack of compliance with our directives on ID documents has resulted in the UK imposing this this policy change, which will inconvenience the rest of us.
If the Commission have now changed their mind, then EU Citizens face joining some very long queues and watching citizens from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, etc, etc. sailing past them through the e-Gates.