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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Friday the 25th of April.

Coming up, a bid to give the Scottish government the power to make its own immigration rules fails.

But the S&P argues that Scotland needs more people,

both now and in the future.

We need more children. We need larger families.

Also, a Lib Dem wonders why no one is talking about the causes of our economic struggles.

To ignore Brexit is to, in effect, get into the car and try and find your way forward,

but wearing a complete blindfold. And pressures on the beauty industry mean your hairdresser

may have been forced into a rented chair employment model. A lot of salons are now having to change

to that model, which is disguised employment, with the employees losing their

workers' rights because they've become self-employed.

But first, the government has scuppered an SNP bid to give Holyrood control of immigration policy.

The SNPs Stephen Gethens had drawn up a short bill which would allow Scotland to decide what

level of immigration the country needed,

arguing that sectors such as hospitality, tourism, care and agriculture all needed more skilled workers.

He admitted that his bill needed some refinement, but he blamed Brexit for many of the problems facing Scottish businesses.

Migration is a good thing. It benefits. All of us throughout time have benefited from migration.

And I've been deeply disappointed by, I'm sorry to say, Mr Speaker, the poison that often

seeps into our rhetoric when we discuss that particular issue.

He said many industry bodies wanted to see a Scotland-specific visa scheme to bring in needed

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