"India's position that a trade deal with Britain must include looser migration controls on Indian migrants is good news for Britain.
The drafters of the refugee convention – including Australia's representative – were well aware that refugee protection was not a way to short-circuit migration controls.
It was always clear, for instance, that meaningful migration controls would be at the heart of any Brexit package that May will accept.
"But the idea that you have that mature, close, cooperative relationship that she discussed is in my mind completely possible with a new package around migration controls that looks at the different examples from across Europe," she said.
He was not pressed on whether the UK should pursue a "hard" Brexit outside the single market with greater powers to restrict immigration, or "soft" Brexit preserving single market access but with fewer migration controls.
Hanson also claimed that some of the rhetoric employed by Tory politicians had turned the issue of migration controls into a frenzy: "These controls have been lifted across the whole of Europe.
