Immigration, identity, and Europe: Lessons from post-Brexit Britain
Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
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The Politics of Free Movement
There is a kind of degree of autism about the, I'm not sure you'd like to say that anyway, about British. We're not nearly as North American as we are West European, but we identify with the countries that speak English. And so when they emigrate, they emigrate to Australia and America. Four-fifths of British emigration has been to English-speaking countries outside the EU. So that was a different point. For other people, European free movement is more of a two-way process than it was for a lot of Britain. Why don't we stick with free movement for a bit?
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