Reform UK's benefit ban on most foreign nationals predicted to deter migrants

​UnHerd Newsroom Editor James Billot predicts Reform UK’s £50 billion welfare bill cut will have a "deterrent effect” on migrants. ​“There’s a twin objective with this policy. One is to get people working, which again is important. That is something that has gone back from as far as FDR and JFK, and it’s only in the last 20 years that we've suddenly said if you don’t have a job you don’t need to work,” Mr Billot told News24 Digital Presenter Gabriella Power. ​“The second one is that one of the big pull factors about Britain is its generous welfare state, and so when you have these migrants and economic migrants trying to come into the country with this on offer, obviously it’s going to be a bit more of a pull factor. Now that [Robert] Jenrick has launched this intervention, that might also have a deterrent effect on what would-be migrants too. ​“So let’s see how it goes.”