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Why Britain (and Europe) depends on migrants

It’s not about economics. It’s about our snobbish, slobbish culture

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

This is perhaps not the best moment in history to extol migrants from the developing world or Eastern Europe, but the fact remains that without them my life, and I suspect the life of many other people in the West, would be much poorer and more constricted than it is.

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