How much is too much legal migration?

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The home secretary, James Cleverly, has announced a five-point plan aimed at delivering the “biggest ever cut” in net migration to the UK. James looks at how different sectors might be impacted.

We hear from Lord Bilimoria, Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer, Crossbench Peer and Vice President of the CBI who thinks this is an “economically illiterate” plan. And Nadra Ahmed, Chair of the National Care Association, who insists this will only heighten staff shortages. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by James Cook. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Natasa Simovic, Sam McLaren and Teodora Agarici. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.8	So today we said goodbye to two of the most famous migrants in the UK.
0:10.5	Mr. Yang Wang and Ms. Chand Shan of China are on their way home and like almost every other
0:17.2	reporter in Scotland it's been a right of passage really. I've spent quite a lot of time
0:21.6	with these two individuals.
0:23.2	Pandas, obviously.
0:26.0	Before he can mate, a male panda must prove his prowess.
0:30.0	He does it by acrobatic scent marking and by bulking up for the big event.
0:35.1	Yang Wang certainly made an effort, but in the end he was rebuffed.
0:39.3	Last year he had at least...
0:41.8	I was quite sad to see the plane lift off this afternoon at 20 to 2 as the
0:46.6	pandas headed back to Chungdu back to their home in southwestern China but we are not going to be talking about who's leaving the country,
0:56.4	we're going to be talking about who is allowed into the UK on this episode of Newscast.
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1:07.0	there are any questions on things that are not related to math
1:09.0	people who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about.
1:13.7	The era of global warming has ended the era of global boiling has arrived.
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1:26.3	The Prime Minister is not under a desk.
1:28.8	Hello it's James in Glasgow in for Adam and it's Chris at Westminster with a cold but our
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