Freedom for criminals

THE real price of the free movement of people, insisted upon by the EU as one of its most sacred principles, today stands confirmed.

The Vote Leave campaign has released a dossier of 50 EU criminals, including murderers and rapists, who cannot be deported from the UK because our courts must uphold Brussels regulations which enshrine the right of these offenders to choose where to live.

Nor is it possible to stop them entering Britain in the first place. This kind of case is scandalously common, and the only way to stop it happening over and over again is to take control of our borders – a point made in these columns as recently as last Friday.