We should welcome Nicky Morgan’s election as Treasury Select Committee chair

Nicky Morgan’s election as chair of the Treasury Select Committee will doubtless be written into a narrative of Remainers taking key parliamentary positions overseeing Brexit. There’s also a story to be told about the power of the Tory moderates: as well as Morgan, Rob Halfon took the education chair, and Tom Tugendhat got foreign affairs.  

But what interests me here is another aspect of Morgan’s arrival at the TSC. Perhaps the most important parliamentary committee is now run by someone who takes a gloriously sensible view of immigration. Last year she argued that the Tories should be the party that makes the “positive case” for immigration and this year she effectively disowned the Tories’ “tens of thousands” pledge as unwise and unachievable.

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