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Professor of Economics, King's College London. Personal views,usual disclaimers. No replies here: try @jdportes.bsky.social
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Three ways a new Labour leader could change the politics of growth

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By Jonathan Portes
| Financial Times Verified
The writer is professor of economics and public policy at King’s College London Who’s afraid of Andy Burnham? Not just Sir Keir Starmer.
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Whoever is in charge, Labour needs a new immigration strategy

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By Jonathan Portes
| Prospect Magazine Verified
Thursday’s migration figures are, in one sense, good news for the government. Net migration has fallen again, to less than 200,000 for the first time since the Covid period:an extraordinary reversal from the post-pandemic peak of nearly a million. Yet few in government will be celebrating. In fact, net migration has been declining since the middle of 2023, but the politics of immigration has only become more poisonous.
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British politics is hooked on flashy fake numbers – and the AI investment debacle proves it

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By Jonathan Portes
| MSN UK Verified
Jonathan Portes One trillion dollars. That's the amount of financial aid Gordon Brown triumphantly announced at the 2009 London G20 summit. (I contributed my own two cents here.) Except it wasn't exactly real : the number was a mixture of already promised apples and aspirational future oranges. So it should hardly be a surprise that when ministers proclaimed last year that the UK was attracting billions of pounds of new investment in AI, they were being more than a little economical with the truth.
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