Britain | Brexit and immigration
Raising the drawbridge
Hopes of a cost-free cut in European Union migration are illusory
HOSTILITY to immigration was a key driver of Britons’ vote on June 23rd to leave the EU. Theresa May has duly said that freedom of movement from the EU cannot continue as before. Yet curbing migration will be both tricky and costly.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Raising the drawbridge”
From the August 27th 2016 edition
Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents
Explore the editionDiscover more
The slow death of a Labour buzzword
And what that says about Britain’s place in the world
Britain’s Supreme Court considers what a woman is
At last. Britons had been wondering what those 34m people who are not men might be
Can potholes fuel populism?
A new paper looks at one explanation for the rise of Reform UK
Are British voters as clueless as Labour’s intelligentsia thinks?
How the idea of false consciousness conquered the governing party