Andrew Marr has said that Robert Jenrick's controversial speech in which he said “uncontrolled illegal migration” threatens to “cannibalise” the UK's compassion is totally at odds with the evidence.
Speaking on Tonight with Andrew Marr, the presenter said that despite the immigration minister's emotive and doom-laden rhetoric, there is no data to suggest that increased immigration has caused existing workers to lose jobs, or resulted in a rise in crime.
"The immigration minister Robert Jenrick, a mild-mannered lawyer, married to the child of Holocaust survivors who sits for the quiet market town of Newark, yesterday made one of the most hard-edged speeches on immigration any serving minister has ever made. "Migrants had different values; they settled in hyper-diverse areas; and they expected to be looked after by the state.
"When the migration advisory committee reviewed the situation in 2018 - admittedly some years ago - they found that immigration had little or no impact on the employment of existing workers.
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