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It 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 do
by sievebrain 10y ago
It 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).