• Friday, April 26, 2024

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‘Brexit threatens skills pool’

Vince Cable

By: Sarwar Alam

IMMIGRATION brings substantial benefits to the United Kingdom. It has made our country richer, culturally as well as economically. Prime minister Theresa May does not deny this. At the first PMQs back after the summer break, she stated: “Immigration has been good for the UK.” Yet, contrary to any evidence in the public domain, she and her party continue to perpetuate the notion that immigration has depressed wages and displaced the native workforce. It is this fallacy that drives their political demand for immigration to be reduced “to the tens of thousands”, meaning ever more punitive and irrational measures to…

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