This blog post, written in 2014 by Pulitzer Prize winner Jerry Kammer, was recently sent to me. It provides analysis and a link to the BBC documentary in which it is revealed that in the year 2000, Tony Blair’s UK government decided to expand immigration in order to address rising wages. Following increased immigration from the Commonwealth and other countries, several eastern and central European countries were admitted to the EU in 2004, along with guaranteed labour mobility rights. As the British came to realise that their jobs and their salaries were under siege which would be further exacerbated by a mismanaged migrant crisis, the seeds of Brexit took root.
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