How Britain plans to cut immigration
New measures will make it harder for companies to hire workers
When the Conservatives came to power in 2010 they promised to reduce net migration to below 100,000 a year. Since the Brexit vote in 2016, there has been much talk of “taking back control” of Britain’s borders. The 2019 Tory manifesto pledged to reduce immigration, though it did not give a number. Yet immigration has continued to climb, and the battle to rein it in continues to have wider consequences.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Not so Cleverly”
From the December 9th 2023 edition
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