A Broken Record: Why Migration Keeps Causing Tory Political Strife

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The Conservatives seem unable to escape their party splits on migration. Despite “taking back control” of UK borders being central to the Brexit campaign, net migration figures have hit record highs. After a week where political wrangling over migration has thrown Rishi Sunak’s premiership into peril, we ask economics professor and UK in a Changing Europe senior fellow, Jonathan Portes, about what the statistics tell us and why this issue continues to have such prominence.

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