Future Immigration Debate

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Department: Home Office

Future Immigration

Pete Wishart Excerpts
Wednesday 19th December 2018

(5 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Lady’s assertions. She suggests that somehow this will lead to more bureaucracy and red tape, but having no cap and no resident labour market test for high-skilled workers and more use of e-gates are all examples of where there will be less bureaucracy and less red tape.

Pete Wishart Portrait Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire) (SNP)
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This is just a Faragist blueprint for drawbridge Britain, a grotesque plan simply to keep people out of this country. Will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to be absolutely straight with the British people that their freedom of movement will come to an end? What we do to the EU, it will do to us, and all the unrestricted rights that we have had, to live, work and love across a community of 27 nations, will be lost to our young people forever. Is that not an absolute tragedy and shame?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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The people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. That means the end of freedom of movement.