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Living wage 'would attract influx of EU migrants', Eurosceptics claim | Living wage 'would attract influx of EU migrants', Eurosceptics claim |
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Tory Eurosceptics have claimed raising the national living wage next April will lead to an influx of migrants, undermining the Government’s plans to cut immigration. | Tory Eurosceptics have claimed raising the national living wage next April will lead to an influx of migrants, undermining the Government’s plans to cut immigration. |
Members from the Vote Leave and Conservatives for Britain campaigns say a national living wage raise would act as a “pull factor” for migration, according to the Observer. | Members from the Vote Leave and Conservatives for Britain campaigns say a national living wage raise would act as a “pull factor” for migration, according to the Observer. |
The national living wage is due to be introduced at £7.20 for over 25s from next April, and is estimated to rise to more than £9 by 2020. | The national living wage is due to be introduced at £7.20 for over 25s from next April, and is estimated to rise to more than £9 by 2020. |
Vote Leave, an umbrella organisation of the out campaign, shared data with the Observer showing that if a Bulgarian works the same hours in the UK as in Bulgaria, they are 377 per cent better off than at home. | Vote Leave, an umbrella organisation of the out campaign, shared data with the Observer showing that if a Bulgarian works the same hours in the UK as in Bulgaria, they are 377 per cent better off than at home. |
Jonathan Portes, a senior fellow at the Economic and Social Research Council told the Observer: "The Government’s new living wage for the over-25s may actually make the UK labour market more, rather than less, attractive to some EU migrants’. | Jonathan Portes, a senior fellow at the Economic and Social Research Council told the Observer: "The Government’s new living wage for the over-25s may actually make the UK labour market more, rather than less, attractive to some EU migrants’. |
Asked if the Treasury was concerned that its living wage commitment would prove a "pull factor" for migrants, a government spokesperson insisted Britain "deserves a payrise". | Asked if the Treasury was concerned that its living wage commitment would prove a "pull factor" for migrants, a government spokesperson insisted Britain "deserves a payrise". |
"There are plenty of other countries in Europe which have a high minimum wage and the UK does not stand alone in that." | "There are plenty of other countries in Europe which have a high minimum wage and the UK does not stand alone in that." |
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