the UK border at heathrow: dannyman/Wikimedia.
The EU referendum campaign has hit a new low. It was bad enough seeing the Leave campaign turn the whole referendum into a dog whistle campaign against immigrants. But now some on the Remain side are also jumping into the gutter with them. Alan Johnson has tried to make out that there will be more immigration if we leave the EU while Ed Balls has talked of the “need to press Europe to restore proper borders”.
Let’s get one thing clear. Trying out-scaremonger the Brexit camp on migration is never going to work. Very few people convinced that immigration is “too high” or that Britain “is full” (both wrong) will believe that voting Remain is the way to reduce immigration. If anything it will make the referendum even more about immigration and drive even more people to vote Leave.
