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Yvonne Stevens and U.K. Independence Party

local councillor: Botolph Church in the English town of Boston, making a fervent wish. "I want to be out, according to CBC. I want, want, want, want — please God! — let us be out." This is Yvonne Stevens, a local councillor for the U.K. Independence Party or UKIP. Its roots date back to the 1990s and British opposition to the signing of the Maastricht Treaty enshrining key tenets of European integration. An impeccably dressed woman in her 70s with carefully turned out hair sits on a sunny terrace not far from the famed tower of St. David Cameron warns against British exit from EUTrudeau steps into 'Brexit' debate, says Britain should stay in EU It also a party that played heavily on anti-immigrant sentiment, and immigration is one of the key issues motivating those who want Britain to leave the European Union in a referendum on June 23. Over the past decade, Boston has seen the arrival of thousands of EU migrants from eastern Europe and is now home to the largest concentration of Polish immigrants in England and Wales. Stevens is no exception. "Let say, 'No, let stop,'" says Stevens, referring to unfettered immigration of EU citizens entitled to live and work in any EU country of their choosing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.