As Williams says, OBR found (no surprise!) high wage migrants who remain here indefinitely make a substantial net fiscal contribution; reverse is true for low wage migrants (those on average wages do better than UK-born, since we don’t educate them). (2/7) obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...

He then claims – based *not* on any actual data either from Home Office or MRC, but based on assumptions in his own “research”, that only 5% of new migrants are in fact “high wage” according to the OBR definition, while 60% are low paid. (3/7)