Tony Blair has launched an impassioned defense of freedom of movement in Europe as he denied that his Labour government allowed levels of immigration into Britain to rise too high.
Blair has been criticized, including by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, for choosing not to impose restrictions that would have temporarily limited immigration to Britain from the eight Eastern and Central European countries, including Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic, that joined the EU in 2004.
But speaking Tuesday at a Q+A event in London hosted by Prospect magazine and the Centre on Religion and Geopolitics, Blair said he did …read more
Source: Newsweek
