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Letters | 8 September 2016

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issue 10 September 2016

What Swedes don’t say

Sir: Tove Lifvendahl is, unfortunately, exactly right in her analysis of Swedish immigration and asylum policy (‘Sweden’s refugee crisis’, 3 September). Those in Sweden who support free movement and free trade feel it has long been obvious that the consensus in the riksdag would lead to disaster.

Last autumn saw a celebrity-studded ‘Sweden Together’ celebration of the open-border immigration policy.

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