IMMIGRATION: Reasons to be cheerful? Ian Dunt talks to Jonathan Portes

08/10/20 • 27 min

Priti Patel might be trying to stoke fears with her ludicrous ‘Clandestine Channel Threat Commander’ but as the Brexit madness recedes, is the environment for immigrants moving in an inexorably more liberal direction? Professor Jonathan Portes of KCL takes Ian Dunt on a deep dive into the economic realities of immigration and finds that not only will we need more immigrants to deal with the post-COVID challenges... but that we may have passed the high point of xenophobia in Britain.

Listen up for what Dunt is calling “my first-even optimistic Bunker Daily...”

Presented by Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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Listen up for what Dunt is calling “my first-even optimistic Bunker Daily...”

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Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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