IMMIGRATION NOT TO BLAME SAYS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

A professor at Oxford university writing in the British Medical Journal has claimed that austerity rather than immigration was the reason so many voted to leave the EU (HERE).  He argues persuasively that European countries have a far better social model with less inequality and better health and living standards than we have.  I think this is right.

Professor Dorling writes: "The UK has been systematically underfunding education and training, increasing student loans and debt, tolerating increasingly unaffordable housing, introducing insecure work contracts, and privatising the services the young will need in future."