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EU free movement and the Tory hostile environment are two sides of the same coin, writes the Indian Workers’ Association’s HARSEV BAINS

ON September 11 2019, Tory ministers reversed a single legislative measure introduced in 2012 by David Cameron’s Tory-Lib Dem coalition government.

In June 2012, then home secretary Theresa May announced new restrictions to reduce the number of non-EU family migrants.

In an echo of the barriers erected to migrant families trying to enter Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, the Immigration and Nationality Regulations 2012 permitted only British citizens earning more than £18,600 per annum to bring spouses or children to the Britain.

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