Some locals plan to leave over politics

UK, Ireland see increase in passport applications, write Catarina Demony and Andrew Hofstetter

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When US President Donald Trump decided to seek a second term in the White House, Doris Davis and Susie Bartlett — an interracial lesbian couple living in New York City — made a life-changing decision.

If he won, they would move abroad. The couple said they had been willing to give Mr Trump a go during his first term, but they'd watched in alarm as he returned to office and ended a range of policies aimed at promoting racial equity and rights for LGBTQ+ people.

“We love this country, but we don’t love what it has become,’ Ms Davis, a 69-year-old educational consultant, said from their home in a New York City suburb.

“When your identity is being attacked, there is a personal sense of... anger [and] frustration”