article_snippet: ‘It is astonishing that nobody properly considered the impact of the wage differential between Britain and a huge country like Poland.
article_snippet: He argued that, at best, it had a ‘barely perceptible’ impact on economic growth per head while supressing the wages of the less well-off.
article_snippet: It is the relatively unskilled in the bottom half of the distribution who have lost out.
article_snippet: The liberal elite do not suffer.
article_snippet: Indeed, The liberal elite benefit because many of the services The liberal elite consume are provided at lower prices than would have been the case without mass immigration.
article_snippet: (pictured) comments were echoed by ex-Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who said: ‘The person that benefits from…growth is often not the one worried that their kid is going to get less attention from the teacher in the class room because there are people speaking Polish.
article_snippet: It’s nonsense to suggest It has terrible impact on public services