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Control over migration, the fact that power does lie down the road at westminster and politicians can pull levers and do something about it, really matters to people but there is still scepticism about whether those politicians will be willing to make the difficult judgments or open about the trade—offs to try to get those numbers lower as the prime minister has today promised. can he manage to do that and if so, at what cost? and also, what do labour promise to do in the countdown to the next...

Market and vacancies. you can look at some kind of cultural measures with opinion polls but it tends not to be very satisfactory. ultimately, these are things that people sort of feel rather than quantify. having observed this conversation that we have had nationwide for a long time, how do you think it has changed since brexit? just the way people talk about immigration and the numbers? i think there have been interesting changes in public opinion, we have the best data on public opinion and th...

Last one because we have to talk about the news although i could do this all night. im happy as long as im mounted, he used to say, and you are so compulsively rideable. surely that is jilly cooper! absolutely, 1000%, it is from riders. im sure they are very good but there is a theme runs through them. i was going to try and say a mounting joke... lets not. lets get on with this episode of newscast. hello, it is adam in the studio. and james in the studio. lovely to have you here and we will be ...

Until the kids were born and then i found the first holiday after we had the oldest daughter, and ed had read three novels in one week. full on novels! he reads on everything. and i had just read three magazines! that was the difference. that tells you about the division of childcare labour. he does a huge amount of cooking, which i do not do, but with the childcare, definitely. the thing about keir starmer, i picture him at a football match in his free time, not reading a book. is that... he is...

At some of the figures in more detail and figure out what is going with the director of the migration 0bservatory at oxford university which analyses uk migration data. thanks very much for having me. the first question is, what do you make of these figures? 606,000 is the net migration figure of people coming into the country, did you predict that? was it going to be about where we would land? always difficult to predict figures because so many different things affect them but it was clear that...

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Since the war broke out. hong kong as well, we heard a lot of talk this week about student numbers, the government plans to limit the number of dependents that certain students, international students, are able to bring with them. why did we come here to this corner of norfolk? if you go back to the brexit vote in 2016, more than 70% of people here who voted in the referendum voted for brexit and when you speak to people around here, the whole question of migration is a very live one. there is t...

New data shows that the UK has hit a record high net migration number of 606,000. Through it has been central to 13 years of policy and rhetoric, net

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Is a shortage here, they, the government puts a particular profession you were talking about, the big list they have of shortage skills. then you can bring in people from abroad, labour says it would look at that list and say we should use that to target where we need to train people up in the uk, and over time that will bring those numbers down. i mean popular attitudes, and we will explore that this morning damian and dominic, interesting in this country, it is a political hot pot they toe, if...