Lyndsey Stonebridge
Theresa May probably really does believe one can build a “cohesive society” post- Brexit by reducing annual net migration to “the tens of thousands.” It was in her manifesto, where she also promised to “bear down” on non-EU migrants. Many people— including all university vice chancellors, the CBI and the Institute of Directors and, allegedly, some of her cabinet—think not. Even the laziest of PPE undergraduates will tell you that the economic consequences of an arbitrary, uncosted setting of migration figures is probably not going to be good. Some are asking when taking back control came to mean signing up to the numerological fantasies of a suicide cult.