British politicians discuss help for rich Americans who want to flee Trump rule

MPs discuss help for rich Americans who want to flee from Donald TrumpReuters

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00:00But turning now to the economy, an idea for the Chancellor to grow the economy, as President-elect

00:06Trump prepares to take office next week, there are reports that a number of wealthy, high-skilled

00:13Americans are looking to come to the UK for fear of what President-elect Trump will do

00:19to their country. But because the Conservatives so broke the immigration system, many of them

00:26are finding there's no visa that they can apply for. Now, I know the Prime Minister

00:31is rightly seeking to reduce immigration from the record highs of the Conservative, but

00:39does he agree if people like this want to come to our country to bring their money and

00:45their skills so we can grow our economy and pay for our public services, they should be

00:51able to?

00:52Well, Mr Speaker, we welcome all investment into the United Kingdom, and I'm very pleased

00:58to have had record investment in the time that we've been in office and continue to

01:03welcome investors and investment to this country. But he's absolutely right, the last government

01:08lost control of immigration as they lost control of health and the economy and the borders

01:13and everything else. And it was, of course, the Leader of the Opposition who was championing

01:17the driving up of the numbers. So we will bring those numbers down, we'll get it back

01:21under control, we'll encourage investment.