Lord Wei was well-placed to explore some “radical” proposals for immigration policy at the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration’s (APPG) fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference last week, where he argued that the Conservatives needed to reach out to ethnic minority voters to be successful at the ballot box.
He asked whether the current messages around immigration would ever attract the support of the “Spanish, Chinese and Indian voters in the future?” and in the process pointed to US Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s current low polling among Hispanic voters.
Wei advocated the need for the Tories to develop their connection with ethnic minority voters in the UK, who he believes naturally have Conservative ideals. But, he suggested, the Conservative Party is “5 or 10 years out of date” with its immigration policies, which hampers the Party’s attempts to attract potential new supporters.
There is plenty of political concern that the public fears immigration has negative impacts on jobs and wages. But Wei asked whether, if you “reduced immigration to zero, would this really result in jobs for Brits?”. “No, you would drive up the costs of labour because of the skills shortage”, he answered.
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