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Non-partisan information on UK attitudes to the EU before and since the EU Referendum

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Topic: Migration and freedom of movement

Attitudes towards migration, the freedom of movement provisions and related policies. This section also covers attitudes towards the immigration policy that the UK should adopt now that it has left the EU, including data collected by the Future of Britain project.

When it comes to voting in the next General Election, how important to you is the issue of immigration?

27 September 2017 Question Migration and freedom of movement


How would you rate the performance of the Conservative Government on immigration?

27 September 2017 Question Migration and freedom of movement


To what extent do you agree or disagree that ‘immigration brings pressures as well as gains and our decision to leave the EU gives us a chance to change the system. What we need now is a sensible policy to manage immigration so we control who comes here but still keep the immigration that’s good for our economy and society, and maintains our tradition of offering sanctuary to refugees who need our protection’?

25 September 2017 Question Migration and freedom of movement


To what extent do you agree or disagree that ‘the UK and EU should guarantee the rights and status of EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU as the first item for discussion in the Brexit negotiations and not make people wait until the negotiations conclude in 2019’?

25 September 2017 Question Migration and freedom of movement The Brexit process


Would you prefer the number of low skilled workers from outside the EU coming to live in Britain to increase, decrease, or remain about the same?

25 September 2017 Question Migration and freedom of movement


Would you prefer the number of low skilled workers from inside the EU coming to live in Britain to increase, decrease, or remain about the same?

25 September 2017 Question Migration and freedom of movement


Would you prefer the number of highly skilled workers from outside the EU coming to live in Britain to increase, decrease, or remain about the same?

25 September 2017 Question Migration and freedom of movement


Would you prefer the number of highly skilled workers from EU countries coming to live in Britain to increase, decrease, or remain about the same?

25 September 2017 Question Migration and freedom of movement


To what extent do you agree or disagree that the UK Government should control low-skilled immigration through an annual cap while allowing skilled migrants to come to the UK as before?

25 September 2017 Question Migration and freedom of movement


To what extent do you agree or disagree that we should stop all immigration from the EU?

25 September 2017 Question Migration and freedom of movement


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