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Gail Downey: UK Correspondent on the UK's population being expected to increase over next 7 years · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The UK. We go and Gale down and joins us Hellegale.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Andrew, well knit.
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  Speaker 1: Migration is increasing the population to seventy two and a
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  Speaker 1: half a million in the next seven years. That's the
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  Speaker 1: next to ten million people. You're booming.
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  Speaker 2: We are booming and the projective figures come from the
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  Speaker 2: Office of National Statistics, which also reveal almost five million
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  Speaker 2: people are leaving the country to live elsewhere, so that's
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  Speaker 2: ten million in and five million out. The government says
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  Speaker 2: it wants to bring down the staggeringly high levels of migration,
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  Speaker 2: but it won't put an arbitrary cap on the numbers
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  Speaker 2: of people coming in. England is expected to have the
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  Speaker 2: highest number of immigrants, with Northern Ireland the lowest. The
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  Speaker 2: number of births and deaths between twenty twenty two and
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  Speaker 2: twenty thirty two is expected to be equal, but there
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  Speaker 2: will be one point seven million more pensioners now. Concern
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  Speaker 2: has been raised by opposition MPs. The Shadow Home Secretary
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  Speaker 2: Chris Philip so the number immigrating long term to the
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  Speaker 2: UK was shocking and unacceptable. A government spokes and said
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  Speaker 2: they would link immigration skills and visas to grow the
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  Speaker 2: domestic workforce and end the reliance on overseas labor and
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  Speaker 2: boost economic growth.
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  Speaker 1: Have you got enough houses?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the big thing. And of course at the
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  Speaker 2: moment the government is looking at how ways of encouraging
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  Speaker 2: developers to build more houses, which is fine except that
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  Speaker 2: many people don't want the houses in their backyard.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding, all right. So the AMAB bombing in Northern Ireland,
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  Speaker 1: when did that happen?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that was back in nineteen eighty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Forgive me, I figured the last interest are quite a
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  Speaker 1: way away before.
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  Speaker 2: The peace Sorry apologies, it was actually before the Good
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  Speaker 2: Friday Agreement, which it was just after the Good Friday Agreement,
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  Speaker 2: which was the signing of a peace deal which brought
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  Speaker 2: to an end decades of violence known as the Troubles.
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  Speaker 2: So it was just you know, say it was four
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  Speaker 2: months after that was signed.
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  Speaker 1: So with having acquire an inquiry, an awful long time
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  Speaker 1: after the fact that you have to say we're having
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  Speaker 1: an inquiry into the bombing in Northern Ireland. It killed
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine people and the attack was under the real
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  Speaker 1: IRA was the worst atrocity of the Troubles. What can
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  Speaker 1: we report from today, Well.
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  Speaker 2: What we know today is that two Spanish students were
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  Speaker 2: killed in the bombing. They've been visiting the town of
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  Speaker 2: Omar on a language exchange group and written testimony was
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  Speaker 2: heard from the families giving a bit of background about them,
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  Speaker 2: about their personalities. We know that family members of other
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  Speaker 2: victims are expected to give evidence either in person or
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  Speaker 2: through their lawyers during the four week hearing. And as
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned, it's been a long time since that happened
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  Speaker 2: to now and the inquiry is to determine whether the
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  Speaker 2: bombing could have been prevented and the handling and sharing
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  Speaker 2: of intelligence at the time by state authorities.
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  Speaker 1: That'sy good stuff, Gail Downey. I thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: That is Gail Downey reporting for US out of the
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  Speaker 1: United Kingdom and.
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