The impact of immigration has been a running sore inside government ever since Tony Blair waived the right in 2004 to restrict access to workers from 10 new members of the European Union. Self-employed builders were the first to complain. They argued that rates of pay in the construction industry plummeted in the years that followed and failed to recover after the 2008 crash in line with other industrial sectors. Across other sectors where migrant labour made a big impact, such as agriculture and the care industry, many workers took the same view. Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat MP and former business minister in the coalition government, said nine studies crossed his desk that attempted to assess the impact on wages across the economy, all of which he claims were suppressed by the Home Office. They were kept from public view, he said, to avoid sending out the message that immigration had “very little impact” on wages or employment. “I remember it vividly. Overwhelmingly it has been the case that overseas workers have been complementary rather than competitive to British workers,” he said. Blair’s government was responding to an ageing and declining population of UK-born workers. Without seeking to replace… Read full this story
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