LABOUR’S MIGRATION MUDDLE

DIANE Abbott yesterday revealed immigration may not fall after Brexit under Labour. The shadow home secretary said businesses would be in a ‘terrible position’ if there was a ‘collapse’ in the number of eastern European migrants.

Miss Abbott refused to commit to lowering the number of people coming into the country after Brexit, and told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: ‘Both business and public services like health and education are saying we do indeed need these European migrants that are coming here ... we have to listen to them.’

Asked to elaborate on calls by the party’s Brexit spokesman, Sir Keir Starmer, for ‘easy’ movement, Miss Abbott said Labour would put in place a ‘fair and reasonable’ system to manage migration.

She added: ‘It will be relatively less bureaucratic than some of the proposals the Government have made.’