Amber Rudd asks for analysis of EU migration – a year after referendum

Report for home secretary due just months before Brexit; policy driven by anecdote rather than evidence, says Labour MP

The government is to launch its first major investigation into migration from the EU in order to lay the foundations for a new immigration system, though critics have questioned why the work has begun more than a year after the EU referendum.

The home secretary, Amber Rudd, is set to commission the independent Migration Advisory Committee to carry out a detailed analysis of the economic and social contributions and costs of EU citizens in Britain.