"Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid."
"Obviously, given the objective that we have, what I would hope is that people would be able to see that actually we had reduced the numbers of people, the net number of people, coming into the country. People would, presumably, see that, but it's difficult to say how."
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