A leaked Home Office document passed to the Guardian fills the hole in the middle of Brexit. It amounts to the first official thinking on how Theresa May’s government is going to redeem the referendum promise to end free movement and “take back control” of EU immigration. The Home Office document states its intention clearly enough: to end free movement “in its current form”. Many of these new controls – albeit in a different form – already apply to non-EU immigration, which still exceeds EU immigration by 266,000 to 248,000 a year. If May is intent on making Britain a less attractive destination for migrants, Brexit may yet do the job for her.

Source: The Guardian September 05, 2017 17:02 UTC