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"Mr President, I would like to say to the Commissioner that I find myself listening with great interest to what he says in his speech.
If we took the words ‘European’ and ‘Union’ out of this for a moment, Commissioner, you say that immigration should be skills-based: I agree. You say that sometimes there are times when it would take too long to train particular skills that we need in our economy for ourselves, and again, I agree. Also, you accept that there is a need for control rather than for uncontrolled immigration, and again I agree.
Of course, in terms of training up skills, there is an awful lot more that we need to do. I agree with all of that. But the debate that we have in the United Kingdom when we come up to the referendum on 23 June is not just about non-EU immigration, it is also about EU immigration. It is the same issue to us whether people come from Poland or Pakistan, whether they come from Austria or Australia, whether they come from Spain or Senegal.
We believe that people should be treated the same. Nobody would have argued, 40 years ago – certainly not in the UK – that we should have a system of uncontrolled immigration from the other 27 countries of the European Union, but highly controlled migration from the other 167. So Commissioner, your arguments against uncontrolled immigration from non-EU countries I say apply just as well to immigration from EU countries. We need appropriate control from everywhere."@en1
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