Net Migration if Falling - now the Treasury needs to Pay the Bill for it.

After years of promising that fewer migrants would relieve pressure on Britain, Labour is discovering that cutting migration also means cutting workers, taxpayers and economic headroom.

Next month, John Healey, our newly minted Chancellor of the Exchequer faces what will be his biggest test yet - his first budget.

I will be the first to say that I do not envy his position. Between an economy that has been sluggish to say the least, the continued impact of lower productivity on the back of Brexit, Mango Mussolini’s “Operation” in Iran, …