Number crunch: why Britons ignore immigrant drop
6/10/202623 min
The British government tightened immigration in response to public demand. Yet that policy damaged both the country and the Labour party. Our correspondent embeds on a US nuclear submarine to find out how China and Russia are vying for dominance in the Pacific. And what anti-ageing products actually work?
Guests and host:
- Joel Budd, Britain social affairs editor
- Anton La Guardia, diplomatic editor
- Ainslie Johnstone, science correspondent
- Rosie Blau, co-host of “The intelligence”
- Jason Palmer, co-host of “The intelligence”
Topics covered:
- Immigration, Britain, asylum
- Submarines, Pacific, geopolitics
- Ageing, wrinkles, retinoids, peptides
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Jason Palmer· Host0:09
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Rosie Bloor· Host0:16
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist. I'm Rosie Bloor.
Jason Palmer· Host0:26
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Rosie Bloor· Host0:27
Today on the show, aboard a US nuclear submarine and which products actually fight wrinkles. First up, though.
Joel Budd· Guest0:46
[upbeat music] Immigration to Britain has gone through the most extraordinary boom and bust cycle.
Jason Palmer· Host0:58
Joel Budd is our social affairs editor.
Joel Budd· Guest1:02
After the COVID pandemic, when Britain started to allow people to move freely into the country, the number of immigrants rose very, very dramatically to the sort of levels that Britain has never seen. In the year to March twenty twenty-three, more than one and a half million immigrants arrived in the country intending to stay for more than a year or so at least, and many, many fewer left. So net migration, which is what