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Regarding "D: EU expands eastwards", my understanding is that this was largely driven by the then British Conservative Government as a ploy to prevent further i
by peterclary 10y ago
Regarding "D: EU expands eastwards", my understanding is that this was largely driven by the then British Conservative Government as a ploy to prevent further integration between EU countries. "Wider, not deeper" was the theory.
So the free movement of Eastern Europeans into the UK was due in large part to the Tories.
- sievebrain 10y agoIt was done under New Labour, and it was Blair/Brown who chose not to activate transitional controls. So not the Conservatives. However I'm sure they'd have done the same thing if they had been in power at the time. Resentment about EU immigration followed the entry of eastern European states into the EU (with the UK being one of the only countries to allow their populations in from the start).