In May 2017, British Labour leader and self-confessed socialist Jeremy Corbyn refused to commit to reducing immigration if he won the upcoming general election. He instead committed to scrapping ‘minimum-income rules’ for the partners of non-EU migrants, making it easier for them to enter Britain. In a BBC interview earlier that year, Corbyn had also insisted that EU immigration to the UK is not “too high”; despite the Office of National Statistics (ONS) reporting that 248,000 immigrants entered the country in 2016, and 332,000 the year before that.