The question is whether the Government can negotiate enough bilateral deals to solve the problem, or has to rely on the Rwanda scheme.
The expensive subsidy creates a domestic training bottleneck, whilst this country’s demand for healthcare workers is met through immigration.
Robert Jenrick says that high net immigration puts pressure on services and discourages investment in innovation and British workers.
However, he stresses that it’s “relatively early days” when pressed on what has happened to all the others.
You don’t need to buy the wilder conspiracy theories about a deep state to recognise that it would be irresponsible to ignore the machinery of government.
The UK made a strategic mistake in dismissing the Messina Conference in 1955. This moment is not as seismic – but the UK should not pass up the opportunity to shape the post-Brexit, post-Ukraine, Europe where it can.
Review Net Zero interventions, cut immigration; freeze Civil Service recruitment, reduce railway subsidies – and tell the Bank of England to stop selling bonds at a loss.
Ministers would need to honestly confront why we are so reliant on immigrant labour and then start implementing policies to cut that dependency – not at some point in the future, but now.
Week after week the Prime Minister calls the Leader of the Opposition’s bluff and declines to be written off as a moral imbecile.
Keir Starmer asked the Prime Minister why the Home Secretary struggles “with points-based systems” in a low-key session.
And this is the fundamental problem: it allows us to dodge a broader long-term industrial strategy, precisely because the short-term labour fix is so easy.
ConHome Deputy Editor says that there’s scope for hiking international student fees and inventivising employers to invest in their workforces – but that requires long-term thinking.
Why not conceive of the state as essentially a regulator and provider of services, dressed up in such odds and ends of holy writ as pass the smell test – one tax base under the NHS and the Equality Act?
The conference showed a large number of people, many of them young, wondering what part a rehabilitated, reinvigorated, Christian conservatism inspired by Burke and Disraeli might have to play.
Centre for Cities research has shown that, after controlling for differences in population growth, we are today missing 4.3 million homes that other European countries managed to build.