Theresa May leaves the room at Lancaster House in London after outlining her plans for Brexit, saying, "I know that you cannot control immigration overall...".
Is that right? The free movement of people to take up employment in another EU country is one of the fundamental rights guaranteed by Community law. Yet until the 2004 enlargement to eight countries from Central and Eastern Europe, there was no large scale take-up of this right by Europeans. In 2005, less than 2% of EU citizens lived and worked in a member state other than their country of origin. That figure had not changed for more than three decades.
