The Manchester-based physicist and Nobel prize winner Andre Geim has said that the top researchers around the world and in the UK are either not coming or looking to get out because living standards are so low; they can earn far better wages elsewhere. Does the Secretary of State not agree that all these aspirations, great though they are, will never be met so long as living standards in the UK fall well below those in other western European countries?
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
Proceeding contribution from
Stewart Malcolm McDonald
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 20 March 2023.
It occurred during Budget debate on Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation.
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