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Slashing net migration to zero would shrink the economy and require a swathe of tax rises or an increase in borrowing in order to plug a £37bn funding shortfall, a leading economic think tank has warned, in what is a major blow to Reform UK’s immigration plans.

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said such a

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