During an interview on the migrant crisis Europe is facing which can see over a million people try to cross The continent's borders this year, Mr McDonnell said the movement of people around the globe would render border controls 'irrelevant'.
Completely open borders allowing unfettered migration around the world are 'inevitable', shadow chancellor John McDonnell claimed Sunday.
He told the BBC Sunday Politics: 'The movement of peoples across the globe will mean that borders are almost going to become irrelevant by the end of this century, so we should be preparing for that and explain why people move.
'In our policy making, as politicians, we should be working now to see how we address that because it will mean that we need to look at how we resolve conflicts, how we make the world more equal and also how we tackle climate change.
'In that way in that way we can deal with the reality of the world which means that people aren’t forced to move but there will be movement.'
Pressed on whether he meant totally open borders, he said: 'I think at the end of this century that’s what will occur. We’re seeing people ignoring borders already as they fly from Syria.
Mr McDonnell said borders would be 'difficult to maintain' and added: 'We should be opening up the debate of how we handle that and one of the issues that we have to tackle is why people are moving and it is about conflict, it is about climate change.'
Earlier in January, the International Monetary Fund warned that four million migrants could reach Europe by the end of 2017.
In new forecasts, the organisation adjusted its estimates to conclude 1.3million people could move to Europe every year between 2015 - 2017.
UK Daily Mail
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