Do Labour really want to bring down immigration?
The Power Test
The Importance of Controls on Accession Countries
I think going back to that consensus I talked about, immigration has been good for the country. It needs to be controlled, yes, they'll say. People who come here should make a contribution, pay their taxes, obey the law,. But it's not controlled from Europe. And that was a big, big issue that Nigel Farage and UKIP, they played that tune over now again. There were several really terrible criminals who came into this country because the countries they were coming from didn't give us sufficient information. Otherwise we could have stopped them coming in. That was a weakness in our argument. It was a weakness that you can come in from 26 other countries and there's no controls whatsoever
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