EU Flags Team

The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people

Robert Peston, "Are the British people wrong to want migration to come down?" Zack Polanski, "No, they aren't wrong" "But it's also true they've been pumped stories, negative stories about migration for decades now" "In fact the Prime Minister Keir Starmer said we're squeamish to talk about migration - it seems to me that we rarely talk about anything else" Robert Peston, "Sounds as if you're saying the voters are wrong" Zack Polanski, "No, I'm not" "It's just that 5% of migration is small boats but it covers 95% of the coverage we hear about" "We need politicians to tell the public the truth, and to make sure we're winning people over" "And that the problems in the country are down to multi millionaires and billionaires" Robert Peston, "Would you bring down controlled legal migration?" Zack Polanski, "It would be ludicrous to do that, we have for example 150,000 vacancies in the NHS" "Of course we need to train British workers as well but actually there are huge skills gaps in the green transition and the green economy, where we need to train people up: both British workers and migrants coming here looking for a home" "I think diversity is one of the best things about this country" "This country was built on migration. Of course we should celebrate people who were born here but also people who come here and make this their home too" "I think that's part of being a patriot: a caring and compassionate approach towards others" "I think that's part of being British" "Cultural coherence isn't something for politicians to do" "That's for communities to do" "We had 14 years of Conservative austerity that's destroyed integration, because we don't have community centres, we don't have arts and culture" "And we need to do that collectively" "It's for communities to create social cohesion"