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Theresa May’s pledge to lower immigration is unachievable and unhinged

The only good thing about the pledge is that it can't be kept. 

By Stephen Bush

For the last six years, the Conservative government has been trying and failing to do the following things: lower Britain’s productivity still further, accelerate the burden placed on the public purse by our ageing population, increase the skills deficit, and pull the economy into recession.

But don’t worry: they are going to keep trying to do all those things for the next five years.

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