The Home Secretary needs to take more action to end freedom of movement and give us back border control

Amber fight

AN “end to Freedom of Movement as we know it” must be more than a slogan — it should be the guiding principle of our post-Brexit immigration policy.

Yet, when Home Secretary Amber Rudd road-tested her new catchphrase yesterday, she did so while proposing a “listening exercise” and warning of no immediate drop in migrant numbers.

It is clear a majority of Brits want to take back control of our borders.

A consultation might buy Ms Rudd time, but it won’t tell her anything that business, the public and her own wonks haven’t said countless times before.

By contrast, plans for fixed-term work visas and ending benefits to migrants would have a genuine and swift impact on numbers flocking into Britain.

Our overstretched public services need urgent action, not further delays.

Soft touch

DEMPSEY Hawkins is a killer whose release US parole commissioners believed would “undermine respect for the law”.

Yet Hawkins now roams our streets and works in a restaurant ­serving food to unsuspecting Brits in Cambridge.

Prison must rehabilitate as well as punish — especially when, as in ­Hawkins’ case, the crime was committed at a tender age.

But if US authorities judged Hawkins too dangerous to release, it beggars belief that UK courts were so welcoming to a 57-year-old who left Britain when he was six.

Worse that a family still mourning the loss of their little girl now see her unremorseful killer walking free.

Hassle-tine

DOES Michael Heseltine really want to drag down another all-conquering female Tory Prime Minister?

The former Cabinet Minister, famed for prompting the overthrow of Margaret Thatcher, has pledged to oppose his party again and back amendments to the Article 50 bill in the Lords.

Heseltine may enjoy his rebellions, but Brits anxious for the Government to get on with Brexit won’t forgive another wealthy peer standing in the way.

Especially not one who has spent a lifetime encouraging Britain to join the failed single currency.

Nero ‘fiddles’

CAFFE Nero is a beacon of bad business ethics.

Bosses moaned about the living wage and haven’t paid a penny in corporation tax since 2007. With public budgets stretched, tax-dodging on profits of £25million is immoral and unfair.

Time for Nero to wake up and smell the coffee — and pay their tax.