A NEW report from Migration Watch confirms what this newspaper and many others have said all along – that in order to control immigration Britain must leave the single market.
Failure to deliver this would represent a betrayal by the Government.
On June 23 the British people voted overwhelmingly to take back control of our borders, laws, taxes and trading arrangements.
The rules for membership of the single market are crystal clear. Stay in it and these things will still be controlled by Brussels.
Remoaners continue to claim that we never voted to leave the single market and therefore the Government must keep us in it.
This is a desperate ruse that completely ignores events during the referendum campaign.
Before the referendum David Cameron made clear numerous times that a vote to leave would mean withdrawing from the single market.
Leave campaigners – most notably Michael Gove – frequently said the same thing.
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It is ridiculous and patronising to claim that British voters did not know what they were voting for.
They clearly wanted, among other things, to win back control over Britain’s borders and to put a stop to unfettered mass immigration.
They knew that doing so would require leaving the single market and they were happy to take that step.
It is about time the Remoaners respected the will of the people.
