:00:12. > :00:22.Businesses in London, who are reliant on EU workers,
:00:23. > :00:24.are being told not to worry about Brexit because they claim
:00:25. > :00:26.workers will stay here after the break-up.
:00:27. > :00:30.Migration Watch carried out a survey which they say "proves"
:00:31. > :00:34.migration can be reduced without damaging the economy.
:00:35. > :00:37.But there are those who warn of our ageing society which needs
:00:38. > :00:39.more workers from abroad to keep it going.
:00:40. > :00:44.Alex Bushil has been examining the arguments and the survey.
:00:45. > :00:47.This is Newham, one of the most diverse places
:00:48. > :00:59.It's a community that has been shaped by mass immigration.
:01:00. > :01:01.Well, now a campaign group Migration Watch UK,
:01:02. > :01:05.says so many people from abroad have come to settle here and elsewhere
:01:06. > :01:08.in London over the years that any end to mass immigration would have
:01:09. > :01:12.What we know is that 335,000 more people immigrated to the UK
:01:13. > :01:15.than left it last year and more than half of those
:01:16. > :01:18.Migration Watch UK says this could be reduced
:01:19. > :01:22.by as much as 100,000 without hurting the economy.
:01:23. > :01:24.They also argue that growing the economy through immigration
:01:25. > :01:29.Of course if you have more people here the economy's going to grow.
:01:30. > :01:34.But if you look at GDP per head, that has remained pretty much
:01:35. > :01:44.We really have to wean ourselves off cheap European,
:01:45. > :01:52.At this Romanian restaurant up the road they're not for moving.
:01:53. > :02:00.Irina has lived and worked here for six years.
:02:01. > :02:03.In case we are going to need visa, we are going to apply for visa.
:02:04. > :02:06.In case we need work permit, we will apply for work permits.
:02:07. > :02:10.No, I am not going, I will be here, no matter what.
:02:11. > :02:13.Alex has just arrived here from Transylvania and that's
:02:14. > :02:21.TRANSLATION: I came because I want to work,
:02:22. > :02:28.because I deserve that right, for that opportunity.
:02:29. > :02:30.Others point to the report's assumption that all those EU
:02:31. > :02:33.nationals working here will either choose or be allowed to stay
:02:34. > :02:35.and there is also the problem of an ageing population.
:02:36. > :02:37.The working ge population may shrink and certainly if migration
:02:38. > :02:39.reduced substantially it could shrink significantly.
:02:40. > :02:44.And that would mean either that people have to work longer,
:02:45. > :02:46.later and later retirement ages or alternatively,
:02:47. > :02:48.that the Government would have to start borrowing more
:02:49. > :02:50.and the public finances would get worse.
:02:51. > :02:52.So then this is a report about immigration that's contested
:02:53. > :02:58.and contradicted, but then this is Brexit.
:02:59. > :03:03.A woman in East London has been left fighting for her life tonight
:03:04. > :03:05.after being stabbed in an apparently "motiveless attack" just
:03:06. > :03:09.It happened near Castle Green Park, where the woman had
:03:10. > :03:14.Even the police were taken aback by the ferocity of this
:03:15. > :03:27.It happened on Monday evening at about 9.30pm and the
:03:28. > :03:29.It happened on Monday evening at about 9.30pm and the victim,
:03:30. > :03:32.a 29-year-old woman, got off a bus on the A 13
:03:33. > :03:37.just across this park, evidently walked across and then
:03:38. > :03:40.a few minutes later was found slumped just behind me
:03:41. > :03:41.here with serious severe multiple stab injuries.
:03:42. > :03:44.She had suffered injuries to her body and her head.
:03:45. > :03:47.She was taken to hospital where she remains in a critical condition
:03:48. > :03:52.This is a really brutal and horrific stabbing of a young lady coming home
:03:53. > :03:55.from work on Monday night at about 9.40pm in this park.
:03:56. > :03:59.The local Borough of Barking and Dagenham have increased
:04:00. > :04:05.As you can see, a lot of police are here at the moment.
:04:06. > :04:08.A lot of activity is ongoing to do with this investigation.
:04:09. > :04:11.I would also say is thankfully these attacks are very, very rare.
:04:12. > :04:14.Scenes of crime officers have been here all day
:04:15. > :04:16.They've had the police dogs out, as well.
:04:17. > :04:22.They are appealing for people living around here to jog their memories,
:04:23. > :04:25.if they can remember anything from Monday evening.
:04:26. > :04:31.They believe the community will hold the key to
:04:32. > :04:36.Information on the suspect, we don't even know if it's a man
:04:37. > :04:39.or a woman, but it was a brutal ferocious attempt that's left
:04:40. > :04:44.The Government's Help to Buy Loan Scheme -
:04:45. > :04:46.aimed at getting more people onto the housing ladder -
:04:47. > :04:52.Although 100,000 people have been helped across England
:04:53. > :04:55.since its launch several years ago, there's at least one London borough
:04:56. > :04:57.where the total number of people helped is just two.
:04:58. > :05:02.Our political editor, Tim Donovan, has been looking at the numbers.
:05:03. > :05:06.The Government brought in help-to-buy back in 2013 making
:05:07. > :05:09.available a loan of 20% to first-time buyers of newly built
:05:10. > :05:19.It was then last year raised to up to 40% in London.
:05:20. > :05:26.It cost ?402,000 and they got a loan of ?120,000 to
:05:27. > :05:32.Originally we started looking at shared ownership but the fact
:05:33. > :05:37.that we would have paid rent on the percentage of the property
:05:38. > :05:40.that we didn't own would have meant that in the five years
:05:41. > :05:42.that the Government help-to-buy loan is interest-free,
:05:43. > :05:45.I think we would have actually wrapped up about ?20,000 worth
:05:46. > :05:49.Not so lucky, not yet anyway, is Rachel.
:05:50. > :05:52.She's 27 and is currently paying ?900 a month rent
:05:53. > :06:02.She would be interested in help-to-buy but you have to find
:06:03. > :06:07.Living in London, earning a wage that you can live on and trying
:06:08. > :06:10.to save and trying to buy a property in London, it's just, yeah,
:06:11. > :06:17.So I feel if something else was to come into play that would be
:06:18. > :06:20.great but I am willing to try the help-to-buy loan
:06:21. > :06:24.Now the BBC has analysed how help-to-buy has worked
:06:25. > :06:30.Outside of London people made use of it to purchase
:06:31. > :06:32.nearly 77,000 homes, just under a third
:06:33. > :06:43.But in London there was a stark difference.
:06:44. > :06:45.4,483 homes bought, that's just 11% of the total.
:06:46. > :06:52.The problem for most people in London is that there's a cap
:06:53. > :06:54.there's a cap of ?600,000, which in London doesn't buy
:06:55. > :07:01.New-build properties that have been put forward in these schemes have
:07:02. > :07:04.Even people if qualify for these loans and for this Government
:07:05. > :07:07.assistance have found it difficult to find properties they can buy.
:07:08. > :07:12.Well, the Department for Communities and local Government didn't address
:07:13. > :07:18.the point about the limited impact in London, except saying
:07:19. > :07:20.that the take-up had doubled since the loan had been
:07:21. > :07:24.A spokesman said more than 100,000 people had benefitted across the UK
:07:25. > :07:27.from help-to-buy and it was one of a number of different
:07:28. > :07:34.After 300 years in the City, long, boozy lunches are now off the menu
:07:35. > :07:39.It's because the insurance market has put a ban on staff drinking
:07:40. > :07:46.Lloyd's says drinking accounts for over half of its disciplinaries.
:07:47. > :07:56.Wednesday lunchtime and the Grapes pub, a popular pint
:07:57. > :08:05.wanting a drink over lunch but this pub and others could soon see fewer
:08:06. > :08:20.The boozy lunch was once a staple of City life where deals were done
:08:21. > :08:22.and contacts made but Lloyd's said times are changing,
:08:23. > :08:25.gone are the days of the lunchtime pint and it wants to
:08:26. > :08:28.with other companies that already have similar policies.
:08:29. > :08:31.The corporation's 800 employees have been banned
:08:32. > :08:33.from drinking between 9 and 5, brokers or underwriters from other
:08:34. > :08:35.firms based at the insurance market are unaffected.
:08:36. > :08:38.In a memo to staff Lloyd's said more than half of grievance
:08:39. > :08:40.and disciplinary cases over the last couple of years were
:08:41. > :08:44.The culture now is certainly different to what it was then.
:08:45. > :08:47.One City commentator told me the ban was symptomatic of a wider shift
:08:48. > :08:51.You have to treat your employees like adults.
:08:52. > :08:54.I think the days of nannying people, it's like being back at school.
:08:55. > :08:56.I think most responsible employees will drink responsibly if they feel
:08:57. > :09:04.Ultimately, when you are in the City sometimes you will have to go out
:09:05. > :09:07.with a client and potentially have a drink at lunchtime.
:09:08. > :09:09.You know what it's like when your mates put pressure
:09:10. > :09:15.It doesn't take much of that for you to go over
:09:16. > :09:17.the top at lunchtime, for that to affect your performance.
:09:18. > :09:20.At the end of the day, you are there to do a job.
:09:21. > :09:24.You are doing a job that's got detail in the financial sector,
:09:25. > :09:26.clearly Lloyd's have decided that now's the time to say
:09:27. > :09:34.Drinking at lunchtime has been part of tradition in Lloyd's and the City
:09:35. > :09:42.I think so long as you are sensible, why not be able to continue it?
:09:43. > :09:44.Productivity goes down in the afternoons if
:09:45. > :09:48.So, I am not really a big drinker, I would be happy.
:09:49. > :09:51.Lloyd's says a ban removes any ambiguity on what is acceptable.
:09:52. > :09:54.If someone is found to have broken the rule, it will be down
:09:55. > :09:56.to their manager to decide on the best course
:09:57. > :10:00.That's it for now from me, but let's find out what the weather's up
:10:01. > :10:09.Feeling more mild than last week but not a great day.
:10:10. > :10:14.A price to pay, yes all very February. I it wasn't much better
:10:15. > :10:18.when the rain arrived. Shared misery any easier to bear, not really? A
:10:19. > :10:22.weather front piling from the south-west across us all. There was
:10:23. > :10:26.no escape. Late in the day thankfully a bit of brightness there
:10:27. > :10:31.in Bromley. A fair amount of cloud overnight. Some of of it sitting low
:10:32. > :10:35.on the hills. Not too cold a night. Rather grey start to the new day.
:10:36. > :10:38.Here we go again? Well, not quite. I think we are going to see a bit of
:10:39. > :10:41.sunshine. The cloud melts away and come the afternoon we are all in
:10:42. > :10:48.with a shout of seeing a bit of sunshine. Not too much of a breeze.
:10:49. > :10:52.Dare I say it? Yes, I will, it could almost feel like spring. Friday, a
:10:53. > :10:57.bit more cloud around. With the absence of the sunshine we might be
:10:58. > :11:02.back to around about 11 or so. That sort of theme will take us on into
:11:03. > :11:03.the weekend. Wouldn't promise you two dry days but
:11:04. > :11:06.the weekend. Wouldn't promise you two dry days but you never know,
:11:07. > :11:09.here is Nick with the national picture.
:11:10. > :11:13.Hello. We put that cold weekend well behind us now. Temperatures edging
:11:14. > :11:17.upwards and our weather watchers are seeing plenty of signs of spring.
:11:18. > :11:21.Spending more time looking down than looking up at the skies, we see
:11:22. > :11:23.these early blooms. They are set to continue as we are set to stay mild
:11:24. > :11:24.for several more