Dr Scott Blinder interviewed about the Oxford University Migration Observatory report

On the same day, Scott was quoted on BBC News, sayingWhat this report shows very clearly is that the government is stuck between a rock and a hard-place. A clear majority of people in Britain would like immigration reduced, but they want the cuts to come from specific groups of immigrants, and these are often groups over whom the government has limited direct control, and sometimes groups that are comparatively small in number. The full article can be read here.

He was also quoted in The Telegraph: What this potentially means is that cutting immigration without taking account of these differences may reduce numbers, but in a way that a majority of the public does not support. The full article can be read here.

A few days earlier, on 10 October, Scott was also interviewed for BBC News, giving his reaction to David Camerons recent speech.

More about the original report can be found here.