EX-PM Tony Blair today stands accused of “wilfully forcing” mass immigration on Britain.
He pressed ahead with plans to grant unrestricted access to hundreds of thousands of migrants, newly-released files show.
And he did so despite calls from Labour Cabinet colleagues for delay over an anticipated Eastern European influx.
His deputy PM John Prescott and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urged him to impose stricter controls amid concerns over a surge in numbers.
In 2004, Mr Blair’s choice permitted employees from recently joined EU nations, primarily former Soviet countries, to provide inexpensive labor and undermine British workers.
As a result, net migration surged to over 200,000 annually, creating challenges for governments to regulate the inflow, ultimately peaking at 906,000 for the year ending in June 2023.
Warnings were revealed in papers released to the National Archives, which are made public today.
Reform deputy leader, Richard Tice, expressed, “This simply validates our long-standing belief that mass immigration was imposed on the British populace without their consent.”
“Labour and the Tories have both been the architects of mass immigration and ignored any concerns along the way as these new documents show.
“Tony Blair and every Conservative leader since 2010 should be apologising for what they have done.
“Both Labour and the Tories can never be trusted ever again.”
Ex-Home Office minister Robert Jenrick said: “Blair is the original architect of mass migration.
“We are poorer for his disastrous experiment.”
- MINISTERS in Mr Blair’s government were told to use Post-it notes for sensitive messages, to avoid releasing them under new Freedom of Information rules, files also show.
Haz grab ‘cops fail’
By Julia Atherley
POLICE failed to assess the kidnap risks of Prince Harry’s gap year trip to South America, newly-released National Archives documents show.
The Duke of Sussex, 40, was targeted while in Argentina in 2004.
The Government’s official group on security overseas had deemed the trip low risk.
Harry, then aged 20, flew home early after a local newspaper reported a plot to snatch the royal from a bar.
