Immigration

Simon Harris: Sinn Féin’s changing stance on immigration just ‘populist rhetoric’

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Simon Harris, minister for further and higher education. ‘We do debate immigration on a very regular basis. We talk about it on a regular basis.’ Picture: RollingNews

Simon Harris has said Mary Lou McDonald’s call for an “open” conversation about immigration is “populist rhetoric” which wrongly suggests immigration isn’t regularly discussed by ...