This week’s House of Lords report has put immigration under the spotlight again. But the discussion about whether immigration should be capped may soon be irrelevant. Although we doubt that real wage differentials between the UK and Eastern Europe have narrowed enough to discourage immigration, there are other reasons why net migration has probably peaked of its own accord.
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