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Is migration helping or hurting the UK?

Friday 11 July 2025 06:11, UK

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There's a new plan for deterring migrants from crossing the Channel and coming to the UK - but will it actually work?

This week, Beth, Ruth and Harriet look at one of the most divisive and defining political issues of our time: migration.

France's President Emmanuel Macron has this week been hobnobbing with the great and the good on his state visit to the UK, he's also agreed a new 'one in, one out' returns deal with the prime minister. So is this a breakthrough deal?

Also - how could stemming migration cause problems for the UK? Are the numbers really out of control? And how does this all link back to the economy?

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