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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week, we ask a few of our writers to read their piece from the magazine aloud.

On today's episode, Fraser Nelson reads the leader. Britain's immigration system is a mess. Why not have an amnesty for migrants without legal status and allow

asylum seekers to get jobs while that applications are processed? Michaela Rung is on after. The

Rarandum President Paul Kagame was once the darling of the West, but are our leaders now acknowledging

the grim abuses of his regime? And finally, Mark Mason explains the beauty of bar service.

First up, Fraser Nelson. Many feared mass unemployment as a fallout from COVID-19. Instead,

we've ended up with the opposite problem, a labour shortage.

The lack of lorry drivers has led to some items missing from supermarkets, pubs, restaurants,

and many other businesses are struggling to reopen as completely as they would like,

for want of adequate staff.

As Matthew Lynn says in this week's cover story,

the great shortage of workers has already had quite a positive effect on wages. So we're looking at a situation where there's a rare opportunity for a long overdue

reform in other places, particularly when it comes to processing asylum seekers. For years,

there was quite a bit of public concern that there were far more immigrants coming to work in Britain than ministers ever expected.

Immigration, in short, was a big problem and perceived to be by most voters.

Politicians from all parties prefer to dismiss the concerns as nostalgia or xenophobia rather than address the rational fears of workers that salaries were

being forced down or that public services were being squeezed. This was a fateful misdiagnosis.

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