What's interesting is that emigration is mostly of young British people, and the increase in net emigration is driven by fewer of these young people returning to Britain after spending dinner ti… (View Post)

For the purpose of my contribution to the discussion today I am less concerned with what is economically or otherwise optimal, and more concerned with what there is political consent for. There isn&#… (View Post)

Impending mass global-famine related migration aside, it looks like net migration will stabilise well above 100,000, with net migration of non-EU+ nationals no lower than 200,000 (latest figure 350k)… (View Post)

There is a healthy population of PBers who want to go after working-age benefits, and there are a couple of rare old souls who recognise that Britain's problems are so large that everyone will h… (View Post)

The lower rate was introduced so that the system could be simplified by abolishing indexation relief, I believe. So Streeting wants to tax people at full whack on the real value of their assets not i… (View Post)