Many native Brits who can, but won't work, hate us because we’re not like them
Keir Starmer promises to be even tougher on net migration, instead of recognising the contributions migrants make
No Tory will say that aloud, though a few MPs have privately shared those views with me. Labour, meanwhile, is hyper-focused on border control. Instead of recognising the contributions migrants past and present are making to the economy and our public services, Wes Streeting brands the use of overseas NHS workers “immoral” and opposes their right to bring their families over.I now think many native Brits who can, but won’t or don’t work, hate us because we’re not like them.
Ten years ago, Simon Burgess, of Bristol University, looked into why grades in London schools were higher than in other places. One key reason was a greater proportion of high-performing ethnic minority pupils, and a lower proportion of lower-performing, chiefly, white British pupils; the other was parental involvement. Those are carried through university and into the workplace. Black and Asian parents have no-work youngsters too, but not many.
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