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Letter: Editor's pick: The more likely consequences of Brexit?

Published 19 April 2017

From Frank Hollis, Steyning, West Sussex, UK

Leigh says he supports Brexit but that scientists and “genuine” students should not be subject to immigration controls that will be part of us leaving the single market. The same argument is used by the National Health Service, the agricultural industry, hoteliers and restaurateurs, the financial sector and others that have come to rely on EU immigrants to keep them running. All believe that theirs is a special case.

This flies in the face of a main plank of the “leave” campaign – that it was the only way immigration could be cut.

Issue no. 3122 published 22 April 2017

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