Britain and other European countries should have no border controls, John McDonnell has suggested as he predicted there will be total free movement across the world one day.
Labour’s shadow chancellor said that “inevitably in this century we will have open borders” and added that boundaries between countries will become almost “irrelevant”.
Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary, took to Twitter to publicly voice her opposition to the comments, saying that border checks were necessary.
It came as 120 senior economists from the UN, the World Bank and leading businesses wrote to David Cameron condemning his reaction to the refugee crisis as “seriously inadequate”.
The signatories attacked the Prime Minister’s response to the hundreds of thousands of people crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe as “too slow, too low and too narrow”.
Mr McDonnell made his comments during an appearance on BBC One’s Sunday Politics show when he was asked about his thoughts on open borders first voiced at an event in 2013. ...
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