Home Secretary Suella Braverman has repeatedly made hardline statements on immigration, but today's economic forecast predicted increases to net migration – and indicated this was positive for economic growth mollyblackall reports:
, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility announced it had increased forecasts for net migration to the UK – and indicated this was positive for economic growth.
Mr Kirkup said this was “the latest official confirmation that immigration can bring economic and fiscal benefits to the UK by giving employers access to more skilled workers.” Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said that the contrast between Government rhetoric and the OBR’s assessment reflected a longstanding tension between the Home Office and departments focused on economic growth.
She added: “In migration and in many other areas, you can’t achieve everything at once. There’s benefits of having more people coming in – it makes fiscal projections more comfortable – but there may be political objections for entirely different reasons.” “Since Brexit there has been significant liberalisation of migration routes for workers from outside the EU to come here, though it is harder for people from the EU. The Government has made it clear it is encouraging migration in some respects such as skilled workers and students, and has also created visas for hundreds of thousands of people from Ukraine and Hong Kong.”
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