Migrant hotels scandal: Brexit voters fury with Tories over immigration

I know. you say people want control, I mean we've talked to a lot of people and team today at the Town Center so we actually wanted lower numbers, it's about numbers, it's about services, it's about housing and it's about all these others. and community cohesion and things like this, are people really voting for Brexit for more

immigration

? I think people vote for Brexit for a wide variety of reasons. For me it was about controlling these issues and look at this debate we are having now. because it is again under our control, that is actually for me the most important thing that we get the democratic system in our country to lead on this issue and the tour is in every election.

I think since 1979 I have been promising to take control of our borders to reduce

immigration

to tens of thousands was David Cameron's promise, obviously, again, you have been in power for 12 years, we have seen massive levels of immigration, hundreds of thousands of people arrive every year, so why should

voters

trust you in 2024? in the next general elections to gain control of our borders and actually the numbers decreased, but the main obstacle was being part of the EU and we achieved it, so we must remember that there was a great risk that it was not going to be fulfilled and all of this discussion we're having would be completely redundant if we were still part of the free movement, whose Labor party should Armor campaign for, you know, because this time I was elected leader of the Labor Party with a commitment to fight for free movement .

So we gave it to people, which means for the first time we're actually in a position to do it, so I think people should get a lot out of it, even if we haven't been able to get the result they want as quickly. as they would have wanted and I understand why they are frustrated. I'm frustrated too, like I said, but we implemented the number one change that was at risk, uh, to allow us to take control of our borders. Polls are categorical in showing that the British public believes current levels of immigration are too high.

Brexit was not about controlling our borders so we could allow record levels of legal and illegal migration until Conservatives understand that the threat of an electoral insurgency from the right could prove destructive in the next general election