Migration Policy

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 27 October 2008.

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Photo of Mark Harper Mark Harper Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) 2:30, 27 October 2008

I thank the Minister for that answer. Is it not the case that, when he said that it has been too easy to get into this country in the past, he was right, and that is the reason for the failure of the Government's attempts at welfare reform? In the past three years, 365,000 fewer UK-born citizens were in work, while 865,000 more foreign migrants were in work. I listened to his answer to Mr. Field. Even if he takes the steps that he announced, are they not too little, far too late?

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Andrew Simmons
Posted on 28 Oct 2008 8:02 pm (Report this annotation)

Oh dear, and Mr Harper was doing so well with his "new Tory" credentials. I'm a social liberal, but defer to the power of markets: they can't be bucked, but when embraced can bring immense benefits -- and that includes population migration.