STEPHEN GLOVER: The young justifiably lament that it's so much harder for them to get on to the housing ladder than it was for their parents and grandparents.
Everywhere one looks young people seem unhappy. They also almost certainly detest the Tories more than ever.
Nor should there be any surprise that Labour is planning to cash in on their disenchantment. It has vowed to loosen planning laws, which are said to be too restrictive. Advertisement Nevertheless, many young people will go along to the polling station at the general election in the belief that the shortage of decent accommodation, caused by incompetent, uncaring Tories, will be reversed by that nice Sir Keir Starmer.
That uncontrolled immigration has been a major cause of the housing crisis is barely acknowledged by most young people, who tend to be far more relaxed about mass migration than older folk. Several contributions from the audience, black and white alike, were strongly critical of the Rwanda scheme, and supportive of immigration. The two Tories on the five-person panel — journalist Charles Moore and Government minister Chris Philp — agreed that immigration brings benefits, while adding that it should be controlled. Their comments drew little applause.
There's no mystery about the relationship between the shortage of homes and high immigration. It is a fact. And yet few politicians dare mention it. Most debate on the subject is therefore dishonest. N ew figures showing that fewer visas are being handed out to students and foreign workers suggest that the Government is beginning to get to grips with the problem. Nonetheless, there's no reason to revise the ONS forecast that the UK population will grow by roughly 10 per cent in the space of 15 years.
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