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Old 06-09-2016, 08:14 AM #17
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Originally Posted by jaxie View Post
I would imagine as a former home secretary she has some insights about immigration and probably has some ideas. They were saying in another report yesterday that she'd tried some sort of points system before as home sec and scrapped it as being ineffective.

I can also sort of understand the lack of information at present. I would imagine they are still working out strategy and also it's not the best idea to let the other negotiating side all the eggs in your basket at this stage before official talks begin. I hope that's it anyway and not that they have no ****ing clue.
She didn't try it but there was a points based system in place for non-EU migrants between 2008-10 which May scrapped when the Tories came to power
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