UKIP Uses Brussels Attacks To Make Brexit Case

UKIP and other leave campaigners have come under fire for using the Brussels attacks to argue for the UK to leave the European Union, claiming freedom of movement was to blame. The party's defence spokesman Mike Hookem said the attack at the city's airport and metro showed that "Schengen free movement and lax border controls are a threat to our security". The UKIP press release then gives figures on Molenbeek, the area of Brussels where the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam