I was RIGHT to open Britain’s borders to hundreds of thousands of Eastern European migrants, insists war criminal Tony Blair

‘Tony Blair has insisted he was right to let hundreds of thousands of Eastern European migrants move to Britain.

The former Prime Minister said it was not a ‘mistake’ to open Britain’s borders to eight former Communist countries in 2004, despite the decision being criticised by the Labour leader Ed Miliband.

Mr Miliband said the former PM had ‘got it wrong’ when he allowed people from Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to work in Britain without restrictions.’

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