GETTY•SG Daniel Hannan, Vote Leave campaigner, said Brexit may not cut migration

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Senior MEP Daniel Hannan insisted that ditching Brussels would not stop the amount of people coming to Britain being slashed. The Conservative, who campaigned for Vote Leave ahead of the referendum, even claimed the group had only promised “control” and not a specific number. But the campaign was also headed up by top Tories Michael Gove and former London mayor Boris Johnson.

The Conservative manifesto pledged to cut net migration each year to the “tens of thousands”. Mr Hannan made the comments during a clash with Evan Davis on BBC Newsnight in the wake of the historic vote. The 44-year-old claimed Britain could possibly get a Norway-style trade deal, which limits political integration with Brussels but allows access to the single market.

SG Evan Davis furiously questions Conservative MEP Dan Hannan over migration

SG Newsnight host Evan Davis looks exasperated as he questions the Eurosceptic Hannan

But this would also mean accepting the “free movement of labour”. A frustrated Davis said: “I’m sorry, we've just been through three months of agony on the issue of immigration. “The public have been led to believe that what they have voted for is an end to free movement.”

Mr Hannan explained that the Vote Leave campaign was about removing “legal entitlements to live in other countries, to vote in other countries and to claim welfare and to have the same university tuition”. But Davis responded: “Why didn't you say this in the campaign?

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