Ex-Cameron adviser says Mervyn King was strong advocate of opening up immigration without transitional controls, which partly drove Brexit voteMervyn King encouraged Tony Blair to open the doors to immigration from eastern Europe without any transitional controls, according to a former senior diplomat who claims the decision partly drove the Brexit vote more than a decade later. Q&A What was wrong with the claim that the UK sends the EU £350m a week? Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, eventually became a vocal Eurosceptic. “They were not talking much about free movement, borders, or the ECJ [European court of justice] then. He suggested it was ironic that those same voices were now demanding that the UK break even those close economic ties.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2017 20:26 UTC