For example, a policy paper published in the UK in 2017 by the Brexit lobby group Leave Means Leave called for a ‘five-year freeze on unskilled immigration’.8 Is that a good idea? Hard to say until we know what the idea really is: by now, we should know to ask, ‘What do you mean by “unskilled”?’ The answer, on closer inspection, is that you’re unskilled if you don’t have a job offer on a salary of at least £35,000 – a level that would rule out the majority of nurses, primary school teachers, technicians, paralegals and chemists.
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