The Myth of the Brexit Vote

The ONS said today, you know, this is going to be an exceptional period. This is partly the sort of after effects of Covid-19. The British labour market is adjusting itself in all sorts of ways. We've probably hit the peak, but nonetheless no one is seriously expecting actually net migration, next year or the year after, to go back even to the figure it was in 2016. So where does this play out politically? Because Lewis, you were right to point out that the government sort of set the bar expectation management at a million happy days. It's nothing like as bad as that. But on the other hand, as we've been saying, the government has