“It would be a managed thing on the basis of the skills required,” he said of his
party’s future immigration policy. “What there wouldn’t be is
whole-scale importation of underpaid workers from central Europe in
order to destroy conditions, particularly in the construction
industries.”
Pressed on how his party would restrict immigration,
Corbyn said: “You prevent agencies recruiting for jobs like that, you
advertise for jobs in the locality first … It would be on the basis on
the economic need and skills required. The need for nurses is huge …
we have to be sensible about this.”
The Guardian has fuller quotes of the segue between the two sets of comments, see above. Finding a video clip is proving fiddly. But Helen Lewis plays a straight bat in my experience, FWIW.
Er, he said both versions in the Marr interview.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/23/labour-would-leave-single-market-jeremy-corbyn