Does immigration really benefit the British economy?

The daily consecrates an editorial to a government report that concludes that immigration has had "little or no impact" on the economic wellbeing of Britain, to be released April 1st. "Astonishingly, it is the first detailed economic assessment to have been attempted by Parliament during a decade of mass immigration on a scale unmatched in our history. That the subject is at last regarded as fit for discussion in polite society is in itself welcome. ... The exponential increase in immigrant numbers has never been debated in Parliament, nor has it been the product of proper ministerial process. It has happened by default because the Government lost control of our borders. This was not so much a policy, more a failure of political will and governing competence.”

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