Jonathan Portes
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
- As well as the White Paper, the Home Office published a lot of very useful research yesterday. Funnily enough, this chart didn't make it into the White Paper. [NB median PAYE earnings for all employees was £28K] www.gov.uk/government/p...
- Anyone claiming recent migrants are mostly "low-skilled"/low-paid should be forced to explain this chart. [more detailed data also shows relatively rapid earnings progression/catch-up among most recent arrivals]
- This won't have much impact on net migration, but will hinder integration, promote "churn", and increase hardship. Mean-spirited, unnecessary, and unpopular. www.ft.com/content/f844...
- Reposted by Jonathan Portes..finally anyone who believes the Telegraph/right-wing thinktank propaganda about fiscal "costs" of "low-skilled immigration" should be forced to read this, where I correct and debunk some obvious nonsense..[4/4 ends.] docs.google.com/document/d/e...
- Reposted by Jonathan Portes[Not loaded yet]
- For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here. [1/?] www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...
- The claim by Yvette Cooper that there is a link between immigration and higher levels of inactivity (related to sickness and disability) has absolutely no basis in evidence or data. Just retrofitting the evidence to the policy...
- Even from these contemptible enthusiasts for the ongoing atrocities and ethnic cleansing, this is pretty shocking. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
- "The Centre for Policy Studies claimed the lifetime net fiscal cost of recent migrants would be £234 billion. However, this used the wrong data for earnings & employment. Simply correcting the errors results in a net fiscal *benefit* of about £125 bn." www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...
- Home Office special advisors now literally just inventing scary numbers based on absolutely nothing. There is no remotely credible analysis - inside the Home Office or out - that backs this up. archive.ph/ka6ga
