🔎 theipaper was exclusively allowed to observe two separate focus groups of around 20 migrants, giving a rare insight into the lives and feelings of people from overseas who have chosen to make the UK their home Big Read by RichardVaughan1 ⬇️
, who works as a recovery worker, while also studying in Brighton, is in no doubt which politician looms largest for him currently.and, and she gets bashed in the face so many times over. I’m not going to call it anything other than being tough – I would really call it crazy, but I think let’s just call it tough.”She’s making immigration policies
The timing could not have been more apt. In the morning of the two sessions, the latest net migration figures were published, showing record numbers have moved to the UK from across the globe.in the last year from overseas has sparked a fresh civil war within the Conservatives, with many on the right of the party demanding the Government do more to cut the numbers.
The offer of work and the chance to make a headstart in life was an overriding factor for each of those who had travelled from as far afield as South Africa, the US, Uruguay and places closer to home, such as the Netherlands, Spain and Italy.Miriam, a student from Spain living in Liverpool, said the chances of employment and the pay were the main reasons for people opting for the UK.
“I think that in this country there’s a lot of opportunity,” she says. “In Holland, they’re really focused on degrees. So you need to have a degree to get a job in a certain field. Whereas in England I feel like you can start at the bottom, and it is really a country where if you want to and you put the effort in, you can work your way up, and you don’t necessarily need to have a degree.”
She added that while Brexit could have made some less “trusting of foreigners”, she was adamant that the UK “still remains a very open-minded country”.
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