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Coffee House Shots

Should Sunak reduce immigration?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Figures out this week put net migration at 672,000 in the year to June 2023. Should the government cut the number of work visas, to immediately reduce this figure, or should it accept that high levels of immigration are needed to sustain the economy?

Natasha Feroze speaks to Fraser Nelson and Kate Andrews.

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0:00.0

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0:15.4

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

0:23.0

I'm Natasha Fros and I'm joined by Kate Andrews and Fraser Nelson are two specialists on the

0:28.3

net migration statistics that came in on Thursday.

0:31.5

We did talk about it on Thursday, but we thought you'd bring you two together who have usually conflicting opinions on it.

0:37.5

Fraser, you wrote your telegraph column on the net migration figures. What's your view?

0:43.0

My argument in summary is that net migration has been,

0:46.0

it's first of all running at about six times David Cameron's level.

0:49.0

He spoke about getting it down to the tens of thousands.

0:52.0

Now, we found out yesterday is running

0:54.1

broadly at 650,000 which is a fair old rate quite unprecedented in British history.

1:01.5

We had more in net immigration in January of this year for example

1:04.9

than in the whole Windrush period or within the whole of that matter of the last century.

1:10.1

So we are not used to discussing the consequences of migration.

1:15.0

Now I am a fan of migration, I'm the husband of an immigrant.

1:19.0

One of the reasons I love being British is I think that we successfully absorb people from around the world.

1:25.5

I reckon we can claim to be one of the greatest melting pots in the developed world, certainly in Europe.

1:31.4

But my concern isn't about what immigration is doing to our society or

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