"If you actually deliberately lower living standards and increase poverty in certain countries in south-east and eastern Europe then you're bound to have a flow of people looking for somewhere else to go. Surely the issue is an anti-austerity, a growth package all across Europe rather than this."

Here he is half right – right to acknowledge that the immiseration of workers in southern Europe is a factor in migration, wrong not to acknowledge that the UK is a magnet for workers because of the extraordinary jobs growth here since the end of the Great Recession.