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Re: Britain outside the EU
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...latest-updates
Quote:
2d ago
16.42 GMT
Rees-Mogg suggests, if farmers can't produce fruit without foreign pickers, UK should just import it instead
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former business secretary, told Radio 4’s The World at One that he was “embarrassed” as a Conservative by today’s net migration figures, which show the party is failing to keep the promise it made at the 2019 election. (See 11.33am.) He said:
This is a phenomenally high level with economic consequences … I’m embarrassed that we haven’t achieved what we set out to achieve.
Rees-Mogg said the level of legal migration was a more serious problem than people crossing the Channel on small boats. “In terms of the numbers, the small boats is a distraction,” he said.
Asked if he agreed with Suella Braverman’s call for a cap on net migration numbers (see 4.06pm), Rees-Mogg said that this would be one way of reducing the numbers.
And when it was put to him that the UK needed to allow foreign workers to come to the country to pick fruit, he said he didn’t agree. He explained:
We don’t need fruit pickers. If fruit can be grown more cheaply and more economically in foreign countries, we should import fruit and focus on our competitive advantage.
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