Individual prosperity will fall and income tax rise over the next fifty years if net immigration is cut to the tens of thousands as promised by the Conservatives, according to a report published today.
It warns of the damaging economic consequences of cutting immigration by half saying it would reduce living standards and require higher taxation to fund pensions and spending on health for the elderly. Tougher immigration rules ‘will make Britons poorer
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