"Just as this government has a long term plan for where we are taking our country so within that we have a long-term plan for immigration.
Immigration benefits Britain, but it needs to be controlled.
It needs to be fair.
And it needs to be centred around our national interest.
.....And in doing so, there are three dangerous views which we need to confront.
First, is the complacent view that says the levels of immigration we've seen in the past decade aren't really a problem at all.
.....People want Government to have control over the numbers of people coming here and the circumstances in which they come, both from around the world and from within the European Union.
They want control over who has the right to receive benefits and what is expected of them in return.
They want to know that foreign criminals can be excluded - or if already here, removed.
And they want us to manage carefully the pressures on our schools, our hospitals and our housing....."
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