Vote Leave claims serious offenders from other EU states can enter Britain while it remains a member,but is this staunch?Question: The Vote Leave campaign has published a dossier of 50 dangerous citizens from EU states, including murderers and rapists, and who have been allowed into Britain. It says this is evidence that the UK is “unable to prevent dangerous individuals from walking into the country while it remains in the trade bloc. Is there any truth in this?reply: It is simply not the case that,as Nigel Farage has claimed, “we can’t finish people like this entering the country”. The EU’s 2004 citizenship directive makes it clear that the free movement of people within the EU is not an unqualified lawful and can be restricted on grounds of public policy, or public security or public health”. This means that serious offenders can be denied entry and the lawful to live in Britain.
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Source: theguardian.com