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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Will Durrant

Immigration no ‘quick-fix’ for aging population, says Bowie

Immigration is no “quick-fix” for slower population growth, a senior Conservative has warned as he opposed an SNP bid to devolve immigration powers to Holyrood.

Shadow Scottish secretary Andrew Bowie described high immigration north of the border as a “pyramid scheme response” to an aging population, as working-age migrants become old themselves “and perpetuate the same crisis again and again”.

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