Growing the economy or reducing immigration? Brits are split 37% – 39% as to what should be the priority

Which should the government prioritise?

Economic growth, even if it means more immigration: 37% (Con voters 20%, Lab 56%)
Reducing immigration, even if it means less… pic.twitter.com/bd01qxoG3F

— YouGov (@YouGov) November 27, 2023

It must be the free market Thatcherite in me speaking but we must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the destruction of our economy, it is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

Part of me thinks this polling is a bit like the polling that shows the public happy to pay extra taxes to fund schools and hospitals but seldom voting for a party that actually proposes such a policy but we saw with Brexit people are prepared to trash the economy to achieve a political goal.

Back in 2019 Tory party members, so radicalised by Brexit, were prepared to cause significant damage to the economy to achieve Brexit.

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