The Politics of Immigration

After the referendum, politicians have decided to operate a fairly open and liberal immigration policy. There's no single determination of half a government to say 'what we want is 600,000 people net net entry' Damian Green: It's not really within the direct interest of many, if any, other government departments to cut migration. If you're the chancellor of the exchequer, you want to grow the GDP. Immigration tends to do that, maybe not per capita, but it does growing the GDP.