Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:24 pm on 21 June 2017.
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. The world population at the moment is about 7.5 billion people, and 7 billion of them are subject to United Kingdom immigration control. They have no right to enter the United Kingdom to live, work or to study, unless they can obtain a visa, and in many cases—most cases, in fact—they need a visa just to visit. Yet, if you’re a citizen of the European Union, you can come here as a legal right to look for work, take work up, to live, to study—do whatever you like. That’s an inherent part of membership of the single market.