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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

IMMIGRATION: Reasons to be cheerful? Ian Dunt talks to Jonathan Portes

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Priti Patel might be trying to stoke fears with her ludicrous ‘Clandestine Channel Threat Commander’ but as the Brexit madness recedes, is the environment for immigrants moving in an inexorably more liberal direction? Professor Jonathan Portes of KCL takes Ian Dunt on a deep dive into the economic realities of immigration and finds that not only will we need more immigrants to deal with the post-COVID challenges… but that we may have passed the high point of xenophobia in Britain. Listen up for what Dunt is calling “my first-even optimistic Bunker Daily…”  Presented by Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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My name is Ian Dun, I'm the editor of Politics.coate UK and the author of How to Be a Liberal.

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I'm joined today by Jonathan Porter's, Professor of Economics at Kings College London,

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senior fellow of the UK and Changing Europe and my go-to

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expert on the economics of immigration. Hello Jonathan, how are you?

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Not bad?

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So I figured that we would have sort of a conversation generally about the economics of immigration.

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But sort of going to the background of it for a moment.

1:38.0

Can you sort of walk us through basically the opportunities and the challenges that immigration throws up for a country like Britain.

1:45.2

I mean, firstly, I suppose the most obviously, you know, what are the opportunities that it offers?

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