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He had this to say about the PM’s “1.3m jobs over five years” pledge, (most of which will occur naturally because of population growth):
Look, I think it was a press release. It was a wish, if you like, a promise. There’s not a lot of detail behind it, so I think what we would say is if you’re going to achieve this sort of goal, then you do need to have these things that we’re talking about. You do need to be investing in skills, you do need to be encouraging more people into the labour force and the third part of the equation is we do need to have stronger migration again. We have had the border shut for two years. We need to make sure that we’re now getting back to a more ambitious level of migration.
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