OPINION - The Standard View: Labour faces tough choices to bring net migration down

The concept of “British jobs for British workers” is not a post-Brexit phenomenon. Indeed, the phrase was uttered by a man with internationalist and social democratic bona fides as unimpeachable as Gordon Brown all the way back in 2007. But in an era of high levels of net migration, which governments of all stripes say they want to cut, it has taken on greater salience.