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ONS Data Shows Need for Migrations Powers

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Levers Must be Devolved to Scotland

The SNP has said that new data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) shows why Scotland urgently needs control of immigration powers.Ā 
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ONS charts outlined that if net migration fell to zero the population of the UK would halve in the next 100 years, falling to around 35 million people.Ā 
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Given Westminster’s obsessionĀ with cutting migration, these figures outline just how disastrous right-wing immigration policies would be on Scotland in the long term.Ā 
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Scotland urgently needs more immigration in order to tackle rural depopulation, support vital public services, and grow our economy.Ā 
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In light of these figures, the SNP is renewing calls for the Scottish Parliament to have the powers to implement a migration system that works for Scotland.Ā 

These ONS figures are alarming and only serve to demonstrate Westminster’s commitment to a UK in long-term decline.

Their right-wing immigration policies are particularly senseless when applied to Scotland, where immigration is desperately needed to support an ageing population.

The SNP wants to tackle rural depopulation, strengthen our public services, and continue to grow our economy – and inward migration is a key part of that.

The suggestion of devolving migration powers was just yet another broken pledge by Labour under Starmer and Sarwar – what Scotland needs is the full powers of an independent nation state.

GRAEME



Iā€™m Graemeā€™s Parliamentary Assistant based at Holyrood, but I support his constituency work as well. Having been Caseworker to an Aberdeenshire MP some years prior, joining Graeme's team in 2019 was a return to this line of work from a role in fundraising.

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