Protesters from the group, Another Europe Is Possible and Global Justice Now dressed as Henry VIII on College Green in London, as the EU Withdrawal Bill is debated in Parliament. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
"[The leaked Home Office papers] reads like a blueprint on how to strangle London’s economy, which would be devastating not just for our city but for the whole country. It risks thousands of families being split up".

Boris Johnson

Sadiq Khan

Ken Livingstone

Vince Cable
“There is a reason for wanting to ensure that we can control migration. It is because of the impact that net migration can have on people, on access to services, on infrastructure. But, crucially, it often hits those at the lower end of the income scale hardest.”

Iain Duncan Smith

Michael Gove

Theresa May

Boris Johnson
“It will make people feel insecure and second-class citizens because the document is talking about fewer rights for EU migrants. There is now going to be a class of people in this country that will need ID cards and to hand over biometric data. This feels to me like a slippery slope”.

Nick Clegg

Chuka Umunna

Clive Lewis

Philip Hammond
“As a sovereign country, post-Brexit and after any transition period, the UK will be free to execute its own discriminatory immigration policy, no matter how economically damaging this might be.”

Nigel Farage

Guy Verhofstadt

Vince Cable

Emmanuel Macron
“Parliamentary scrutiny is not an affront to democracy...It is its very essence. The true saboteurs of Brexit are those who would sanction the exclusion of parliament from this process. The debate on this bill has only just started.”

Keir Starmer

Nicky Morgan

Kenneth Clarke

Chuka Umunna
“It is in many respects an astonishing monstrosity of a Bill.”

Dominic Grieve

Hilary Benn

Anna Soubry

Boris Johnson
"It seems to be backtracking on the original commitment of the UK to honour its international commitments... There is a problem of confidence here."

Jeremy Corbyn

Shinzo Abe

Michael Barnier

Nicola Sturgeon
“As you will recall, there were reviews, studies and reports into whether the assumption that immigration suppressed UK wages was supported by the evidence. These were shared with the Home Office. They largely showed that this assumption was misplaced, and that EU migration was beneficial to the UK economy and labour market, but the information was never published."

Vince Cable

Nick Clegg

Ed Davey

Danny Alexander
Solutions
1:B - Khan's response to the leak was notably stronger than that of Diane Abbot, the shadow home secretary., 2:C - Speaking at PMQs, May did not refer directly to the Home Office document leaked to the Guardian, but repeated her insistence that migration has depressed the wages of lower-paid workers., 3:C - Among those criticising the leaked paper was Clive Lewis, an ally of Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow cabinet minister, who said the document was “another stomach blow” for EU migrants. , 4:B - The European parliament’s Brexit coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, warned that if the government adopted the immigration policies contained in a Home Office document leaked to the Guardian, it would make a transition deal impossible., 5:B - Nicky Morgan was speaking as MPs began debating the EU withdrawal bill, the section containing “Henry VIII” powers being among the most controversial., 6:A - Dominic Grieve, the Tory MP said, "unless this Bill is substantially improved in the course of the committee stage, I regret to have to say to my right honourable and honourable friends, I will be in no position to support it at third reading in its current form", 7:C - Michael Barnier was talking with regard to the Brexit bill. Barnier said he was disappointed with the UK position he had heard at the latest round of negotiations. , 8:A - Cable has claimed that evidence on the impacts of EU immigration was suppressed by the Home Office. In a letter to Theresa May, he said: “Parliament will soon consider a fundamental reshaping of the immigration system. In that light, I hope you will agree that it is in the national interest now to release these reports in full.”