article_snippet: And I sense over the last decade or more we are not at ease.
article_snippet: If we went to virtually every town up eastern England and spoke to people about how people felt people town or city had changed for the last 10 to 15 years, there is a deep level of discomfort. '
article_snippet: I'm saying a net level of about 30,000 a year is roughly what we had for 50 years from 1950 almost until the turn of the century.
article_snippet: It was a level at which this country was comfortable and that integration was possible and it didn't, crucially, compress the wages, push down the wages of ordinary people.'