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Time to focus on our skills shortage - not immigration

The ‘debate’ about immigration sparked by last week’s record figures is not so much an exchange of views but a cocktail of prejudices, erroneous facts and targets plucked out the air, writes Michael Burton.

The ‘debate' about immigration sparked by last week's record figures is not so much an exchange of views but a cocktail of prejudices, erroneous facts and targets plucked out the air.

The issue should be not about numbers but about skills or more precisely, the lack of them, in the UK.

Michael Burton

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