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25 June 2016

Tory Brexiter Daniel Hannan: Leave campaign never promised “radical decline“ in immigration

The voters might not agree...

By Media Mole

BBC Newsnight on Twitter

It was the Leave campaign’s pledge to reduce EU immigration that won it the referendum. But Daniel Hannan struck a rather different tone on last night’s Newsnight. “It means free movement of labour,” the Conservative MEP said of the post-Brexit model he envisaged. An exasperated Evan Davis replied: “I’m sorry we’ve just been through three months of agony on the issue of immigration. The public have been led to believe that what they have voted for is an end to free movement.” 

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