With a h/t to @anandmenon.bsky.social (and all at UK in a Changing Europe) as well as @jonnelledge.bsky.social (just avoid reading BTL in the Guardian article)

There’s only one problem with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes

"The government's argument sounds plausible. There's just one problem. It doesn't fit the facts. And the government knows it."

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Labour wants to curb immigration: but doesn't want to engage in social care reform

It wants to curb student visas and encourage more UK training: but wont fund unis or FE colleges.

It just tells voter they can have both. /2

59% of the public, and 64% of 2024 Labour voters, agree that migrants living in the UK and paying taxes should be eligible to apply for citizenship after five years or less, according to our new Focaldata research.
www.britishfuture.org/white-paper-...
#ImmigrationWhitePaper

Trump hasn’t named the UK as a tariff target… but it’s not ‘if’, it’s ‘when’ says @hunsaker.bsky.social 👇

www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

👀 Ummmmm excuse me Jim Shannon…

I know amist Trump
tariff news that the PEM Convention is on sooooo many people’s mind.

Tl:dr PEM will have modest impact on UK trade, but it can be a decent first step in a UK-EU ‘reset’ for trade.

Can also listen starting at 38 mins on Moncole.

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Very grateful for the support 🙏🏾

I completely agree, the message from this cabinet is clear: it is not ‘business as usual’

I completely agree, I think the message from this selected cabinet is it will not ‘business as usual’

Tl;dr

The UK should take a two ponged approach: focus first on closing loopholes in the current system while doing that start the long process of implementing a wealth tax in the future.

ukandeu.ac.uk/is-it-time-f...

As always @emilyfry.bsky.social is coming in with quick and brilliant analysis of ONS trade data.

Some worrying services number to watch while some growth in non-EU goods.

Definitely give her a follow!

A UK-US Free Trade Agreement? And why the Falklands and Pitcairn are at risk

This week's edition of MFN looks at what a UK-US Free Trade Agreement (or rather, free trade agreement) could look like.

Also why I'd hate to be the Pitcairn islands right now.

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Not sure why they are livid, pretty sure they won’t be around when it is taxed.

While a man who said Prozac is the cause of school shootings is being put in charge of health in the US, in London I went and saw Roots with Morfydd Clark at Almeida Theatre and thought it was very well done and would recommend it.
You win some you lose some.

BON IVER 👌

🚨🚨 It took me ages and I am pretty certain I missed a number of people that should be on the list but I made my first starter pack now for #brexit and #ukpolitics here: go.bsky.app/NZG5maf

Reposting our UK in a Changing Europe researchers and academics (past and present) starter pack for our new followers!

Follow for evidence-based analysis and insights 👇

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‘Is it the economy, stupid? Why politicians need to create a human-felt economy’ – LabourList For nearly the last half century, the top issue for US voters has been the economy. But as the dust starts to settle on the…

Wednesday I was depressed. Thursday I rage-wrote and @labourlist.bsky.social was kind enough to publish my thoughts post-US election.

labourlist.org/2024/11/us-e...

Oh how was Tory Party Conference??

Very educational, very demure, very mindful…

Great experience on the Kings College London panel on the upcoming US election.

youtu.be/pN601G3basY?...

For a quick catch up before the election check out my explainer.

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Um what’s that next to the cheese?

Oh, Don’t mind that, it’s just £1,200 of 16mm film, normal fridge things ya know.

The UK has potentially lost £44 billion in public investment due to Brexit - UK in a changing Europe Stephen Hunsaker highlights that the UK has potentially lost over £44 billion in public investment since 2017.

🚨🚨 "The UK has potentially lost £44 billion in public investment due to Brexit". @hunsaker.bsky.social has an excellent follow up analysis of a year old @ukandeu.bsky.social report on UK's public investment gap. Tldr; things are not looking better. 🧵
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Just your normal neighborhood squabble.

They handed out pastel de natas at the premiere of Poor Things at the London Film Festival…
I’m not saying it helped but it definitely didn’t hurt when I gave it five stars.

Review: boxd.it/4ZT9XR

Me: can I buy hunger games?
Mom: we have hunger games at home…

Wales: we are putting a dragon on our flag.
Zheleznogorsk, Russia: hold my vodka

Inflation is theft. Bitcoin has no inflation. Do your own research.

I’ve found the best advice in life to be on the back of a public bike.

Ex. Nigel Farage is doing both, Dominic Raab would just eat a worm. Rishi would do neither. We are working on what it means but we are on to something so expect a PhD proposal soon.

My co-workers and I have spent an obscene amount of time at work fleshing out this political spectrum quadrant that is based off whether a politician would eat or not eat a worm and also whether they would neck or not neck a pint...