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Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Kate Andrews, the spectator's economics correspondent, and policy exchange is David Goodhart.

So, what will the UK's post-Brexit immigration system look like?

It's a topic of hot debate right now.

We're expecting a migration advisory committee report

in the coming weeks, where it will give us guidance of what that should mean in terms of who

gets to work here and what requirements they must meet. And one of the big topics of discussion is

how exactly an Australian-style points-based system will work what the government seems to be leaning

towards. Kate, you can kick us off. For those you've just heard the term Australian points-based

system several times in political debates, elections over the past couple years, what do they

actually mean? So a points-based system and immigration is in a very basic way of explaining it, one in which

certain characteristics are allotted a certain number of points. And if you can add up enough points to

get past the country's threshold, then you may well be able to migrate there to work and to live.

So if we look specifically to Australia, they dish out points for a whole host of things

ranging from your age, your skill set, your level of qualifications and education, what job you

might be applying for. In Australia, they even consider things like whether or not your partner

is a high skilled or low skilled worker or able to contribute to the workforce. You get certain

points for your proficiency and language. And so in Australia, you know, they are more centralized.

The government puts more weight on bringing in the jobs and the skills that the government

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