Brexit: How immigration is approached likely to be fraught

Immigration dominated much of the referendum campaign and now attention turns to the question of how a post-Brexit system will work.

With net migration — the difference between the numbers of people arriving and leaving — running at record levels of around 330,000 a year, intense scrutiny has fallen on EU freedom of movement rules.

Tensions over the issue flared repeatedly, with statistics providing some of the major flashpoints in the weeks before the poll.