THE Home Secretary Theresa May’s speech on immigration at the Conservative Party Conference spoke to the beliefs and experience of million of people.

Excellent though the speech was — in parts, Mrs May fails on two vital tests.

The first is that to halt migration from the European Union requires a Treaty change regarding the EU’s freedom of movement. (In fact, ‘freedom of movement’ is a right of permanent settlement in the UK For over 450 million people). This is nowhere on Mr Cameron’s re-negotiation shopping list.

Secondly, the Prime Minister has made it clear that, while he is not in favour of ‘ever closer union’, he remains committed to an enlarged EU with more countries.

Mr Cameron even wants Turkey — a country 97% in Asia — to join the EU. This would then give our country borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria.

Tens of millions more people would also then have the right to live and work in the UK.

Mrs May ‘s tough sounding speech is no more than empty rhetoric.

From William Dartmouth

UKIP MEP South West