POLL OF THE DAY: Should Britain follow the Dutch and impose a fixed population size to control immigration? - YOUR VERDICT
Ben Leo reacted figures on net migration to the UK
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The Netherlands has braced for its “toughest ever immigration” measures, imposing fixed limits for its population size.
Dutch media claims that the demographic development commission urged the country's Government to adopt a population ceiling between 19 and 20million people by 2050.
In Tuesday’s briefing to MPs, immigration minister Marjolein Faber and social affairs minister Eddy van Hijum said that the Cabinet “supports the need to work towards that scenario and to get a grip on immigration”.
This comes after the commission’s previous statement that moderate growth was key to driving economic prosperity as the nation’s population of 18 million gets older.
POLL OF THE DAY: Should Britain follow the Dutch and impose a fixed population size to control immigration? - YOUR VERDICT
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However, Faber and Hijum have issued a warning, arguing that this approach would negatively impact the Netherlands’ public services.
They said that the Dutch Government has picked the “toughest ever package of measures to limit asylum”, choosing to go for a “more selective and targeted policy for all other forms of migration, including labour and education-related movement”.
Additionally, they have asked for further research to be conducted into methods to control immigration, which was “clearly necessary”.
A whopping 98 per cent of GB News members who voted in the poll believe Britain should follow the Dutch and impose a fixed population size to control immigration, while just two per cent disagreed.
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