Monday, May 23, 2016

Griff White of the Washington Post reports on the English vote next month on whether to drop out of the European Union. If Britain does vote to leave the E.U., analysts say, a powerfully emotional backlash against decades of immigration will be the primary driver. In Peterborough, 45-minutes north of London, anti-E.U. sentiment runs strong. A large part of the discontent is the influx of Eastern European immigrants that residents say has transformed the ancient market town. “Immigration is by far the best issue for the ‘Leave’ campaign,” Freddie Sayers, editor in chief of the polling firm YouGov, wrote in a recent analysis. “If the coming referendum were only a decision on immigration, the Leave campaign would win by a landslide.”

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KJ

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/05/immigration-backlash-at-the-heart-of-british-push-to-leave-the-eu-1.html