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Dec 2023
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The Home Secretary will bring in tough new rules to curb legal migration next Spring.

Workers will be required to earn nearly forty thousand pounds to come here. Care workers will be exempt but won’t be allowed to bring a loved one. What will the unintended consequences be? And can we afford it ?

Later, the Rwanda policy is looking for a defibrillator. What does the government have in mind?

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