Poll: Was dropping restrictions on eastern European migrants a mistake?
After former Home Ssecretary Jack Straw admitted that dropping immigration restrictions on eastern European migrants was a "spectacular mistake", we want to know what you think.
The Labour MP said handing immediate working rights to Poles and other nationalities who joined the EU in 2004 was a "well-intentioned policy we messed up".
Writing in the Lancashire Telegraph, Mr Straw said: "However careful you are, as a minister, in your analysis, many decisions are based upon predictions about the future, where, ultimately, your fate is in the lap of the gods.
"One spectacular mistake in which I participated (not alone) was in lifting the transitional restrictions on the eastern European states like Poland and Hungary which joined the EU in mid-2004.
"Other existing EU members, notably France and Germany, decided to stick to the general rule which prevented migrants from these new states from working until 2011. But we thought that it would be good for Britain if these folk could come and work here from 2004."
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