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He was building on the position he had laid out at the Labour party conference, in which he said: “It is the policy of this government to reduce both net migration and our economic dependency upon it.”

Yeah, there are a couple of jokes here and there that touch upon it.

Earth isn’t an isolated terrarium, and life upon it has been as influenced by impacts and near misses as by continental drift.

After the court cleared the way for Williams’ killing, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes pointed out on Threads an inconsistency that’s worth reflecting upon: It’s notable, he wrote, “just how obsessed with due process and judicial review and the possibility of vindictive prosecution” the conservative justices were when they granted Donald Trump sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution, “and how little they seem to care” when a likely innocent man is about to be executed.

He said the government wanted to reduce "both net migration and our economic dependency upon it” but added: “The debate is not about the worth of migrants – that is toxic and we must move beyond it."