On 29 November, the EU is convening a high-level meeting on ‘legal pathways’ with member states, the US, Canada and the UK invited. I very much hope that the UK will attend.
At the last election 81 per cent of voters believed that a Conservative victory would mean fewer migrants. The party’s manifesto explicitly promised that “there will be fewer lower-skilled migrants and overall numbers will come down.”
This is one area where Brexit doomsayers such as I have been proven wrong. So why is he so unhappy about it?
Building up economic resilience will be necessary for a successful response to Brexit, Covid recovery and the transition to Net Zero.
Gove is ready to localise as much either as he wants to or as his colleagues will let him, or both. I hope it’s work in progress.
Its main difficulties surround the related issues of getting Brexit done, cutting low and no skilled migration and keeping taxes down.
Seven out of ten respondents to our poll support that position – though one in five do not.
We are the party of mobility and enterprise. But we are also the party of community and belonging. What is it to be – roots or wings?
Truss must ensure Britain remains a global leader in development, as well as in defence and diplomacy.
The latest wave of an in-depth tracker project shows that a long-term softening of public attitudes has continued during the pandemic.
Given the likely impact of the outcome in Afghanistan on flows of refugees, improvement will be more important than ever.
If a business has easy access to low paid labour it will put off improving its technological processes.
Under the government’s New Plan for Immigration, there is a risk that people like her will be turned away, or only given temporary protection.
It now needs to get real. This is clearly the plan in the next few months, starting with the Queen’s Speech tomorrow, leading to the Levelling Up paper.
Such a move would damage the levelling-up agenda, dampen economic growth locally and nationally, and weaken the UK’s soft power abroad.