ENI:Britain could become Europe's 'moral poor man', says report - by Trevor Grundy

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Britain could become Europe's 'moral poor man', says report - by Trevor Grundy

Britain could become Europe's "moral poor man" because it is ignoring the social needs of poorly-paid migrant workers, whose wages help keep the country's inflation rate one of the world's lowest, says a report issued by Cambridge University's Von Huegel Institute. "If migrants, mainly from Eastern Europe, are at the heart of the British economy, surely the time has come to place their needs at the heart of a new welfare strategy," Francis Davis, the co-author of the 7 March report, "Europe and Poverty - A Christian Response", told Ecumenical News International.

Davis, director of the Centre for Faith in Society at the Von Huegel Institute, told ENI that Christian researchers and charity workers say that migration to Britain often ends as a journey into poverty.