Yes there plenty of people basing their campaign for leave on an immigration halt. So what? What a referendum decides is based on what's on the ballot paper, nothing more. All kinds of different ways out of the EU were mentioned in the campaign. The Norway Option was in fact presented in the campaign as a possible settlement, specifically to appeal to people who were worried about losing freedom of movement. There were leftwing leavers whose priority was freedom from restrictions on how emplyers could be regulated under EU law, and immigation wasn't their priority. There is in fact no power under EU rules to prevent states requiring and enforcing minimum wage levels. The potential possibility of such restrictions would be a strong reason for justifying leaving memnership.
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