The Institute of Financial Affairs—the outstanding British pro-free market assume tank—posted a podcast on UK immigration coverage. IEA Director of Public Coverage and Communications Matthew Lesh interviews British immigration coverage professional Sunder Katwala and myself concerning the British debate over immigration, which has notable similarities and variations with that in the USA. I can’t work out the best way to embed the podcast on this submit. However you may hearken to it right here.
We coated a variety of points, together with how the British political proper is extra divided on immigration than the US proper, the determinants of public help and opposition to immigration within the two international locations, whether or not a culturally extra assured nation is more likely to be much less afraid of migration, the connection between migration coverage and zoning restrictions on the development of recent housing (the latter are a major problem in each international locations), and far else.
Katwala is Director of the British Future assume tank, and creator of the notable new e book How one can Be a Patriot: Why Love of Nation Can Finish Our Very British Tradition Conflict. A number of the concepts within the e book had been referenced in our dialogue, in addition to some from my very own e book Free to Transfer: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom.
