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Britain | Migration policy<br>Britain has crushed immigration, and harmed itself<br>Nobody seems to have noticed<br>Share
Illustration: Carl Godfrey
May 28th 2026|WARWICK|7 min read
A few years ago Britain’s door was wide open to immigrants. It was possible to hire foreign workers “from the other side of the world” and pay them just £26,000 ($35,000) a year, marvels Dawood Ibtehsam, who owns a McDonald’s restaurant franchise in Warwick, a county town in the West Midlands.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Quantity not quality”
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