Ed Davey exposes the awkward truth about free movement and infrastructure spending

You can promise all you like about infrastructure but you can't deliver on it while cutting migration.  

One of the areas of consensus in this election is about infrastructure spending: Sajid Javid is proposing £20bn of infrastructure spending, John McDonnell is promising upwards of £50bn. 

It was much the same in the speech given by Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrats’ deputy leader and finance spokesperson, which announced a swathe of infrastructure projects to combat climate change. The speech contained two headline generators: for the local and regional papers, a commitment to...
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