"This principled decision of European solidarity and liberal economics contrasted with the approach of Germany and France, which was to impose temporary restrictions on free movement for the first few years. But it was a decision made by default, according to Ed Balls, who was then a Treasury adviser: 'We didn't see the extent to which low-wage people would move. Fundamentally, we didn't think they would.'"
John Rentoul at the Independent says that, regarding Tony Blair, "politics today is the opposite of what he and his supporters hoped for."
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