The New Statesman
•70% Informative
For the first time, the British Social Attitudes survey found that a majority of the British public wanted immigration levels to stay the same or increase.
The public is becoming more positive to migration as a way of filling gaps in every profession except banking.
Polls show that most swing voters no longer care about immigration.
We’re already seeing skilled professionals such as doctors threatening to abandon the NHS for Australia, where they get more money and more respect.
There’s been remarkably little evidence of government efforts to make them stay.
Many Tory policies tuition fees, the refusal to build houses, the determination to put any unavoidable tax increases on the young start to make much more sense if you assume they're a deliberate attempt to get emigration figures up.
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