Girl stuns pro-EU MPs with TV attack on open borders
A GIRL of 16 who backs Brexit left two frontbench politicians speechless with a fierce attack on Europe’s open borders.
On the BBC’s Question Time, Lexie Hill stunned Environment Secretary Liz Truss and Labour’s Diane Abbott, insisting they were wrong on immigration.
The grammar school pupil, of Poole, Dorset, eloquently tore apart the Remain campaign’s suggestion David Cameron’s EU deal will reduce ‘pull factors’ attracting migrants to the UK.
The intervention came after Miss Truss – who supports the campaign for Britain to stay in the EU – defended the deal negotiated the PM last week. Mr Cameron had been denounced for failing to secure crucial EU reforms, with only minimal proposals to restrict migrant benefits.
Lexie said: ‘I can’t accept Liz’s argument that they’re trying to reduce the pull factors because what is increasing the living wage to £9 in 2020 going to do? Eastern Europeans who have a minimum wage which is already one tenth of what ours is … surely that’s going to increase net migration?’
She added: ‘I would get out of the EU so we could have a fair points-based system so we don’t favour people from the EU over people [outside] … We can have someone unskilled within Europe coming in without any questions, but a really talented doctor from India has to go through an intensive process. It doesn’t make sense.’
Labour’s international development spokesman Miss Abbott said the immigration debate was ‘riddled with myths’ about people who come to Britain to ‘live on benefits’.
Lexie’s father Robert Hill told The Telegraph: ‘We are very proud of her, she’s always had very strong views on politics.’