Is Theresa May right about immigration?
by Alberto Nardelli and George Arnett from on (#PM26)
We check the home secretary's claims that immigration is pushing thousands out of work, undercutting wages and bringing no economic benefit to the UK
The home secretary, Theresa May, made immigration the centrepiece of her speech to the Conservative party conference, saying that the scale Britain had experienced in the last decade was not in the national interest.
May made a number of specific claims, including that:
Migration into UK doesn't push up native unemployment, even among young unskilled Brits pic.twitter.com/ZooPJo3j3i
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