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Time for a new approach to immigration
The publication last week of the annual UK migration figures sparked the usual depressing ill-informed rhetoric. The headline figures showed that in 2022 net immigration topped a record 900,000, and that last year this fell back by 20%. Sir Keir Starmer called an impromptu press conference to blame the Tories and to promise effective action …
Being less worse than Labour isn’t enough
Time to check in on the SNP’s journey back from its biggest ever electoral defeat. A clutch of recent polls and by election results give us an immediate insight into the public’s perception of the political choices before them. The story is not of SNP recovery but Labour implosion, with the latest poll suggesting the …
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Labour’s Brexit madness
Things aren’t going well for the new Labour government. The figures for the first quarter of their tenure of the economy say it is pretty much flatlining – growth of one tenth of one percent. Not good news for a crew whose only mantra seems to be growth, growth, growth. Some have pointed out this …
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