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"Mr President, the idea has got around that rights of residence and migration are some integral part of the EU’s competence. In fact, before the Tampere Summit in 1998, it was limited in a very restricted way to free movement of labour. All these rights that we now take for granted, about reciprocal welfare entitlements and common immigration policy, are a very recent addition to the acquis.
I am more in favour of controlled legal migration than a number of Members of my party are. I see benefits to a country that can harness the energy and enterprise of those who are prepared to cross half the world and make new lives. But the Social Compact works on the basis that if I am asking my constituents to admit a measure of net inward migration, they have to believe, in turn, that we are in control of who comes in and in what numbers – and that is the sense that they have lost as a result of EU Treaties. The reason why many in this House were so tetchy and irritable in the aftermath of the recent vote on this subject in Switzerland is that they know very well that their own electorates would have made exactly the same decision."@en1
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