The right is desperate for a solution to falling birthrates. Who's going to tell them that the answer is immigration? | John Harris

JD Vance and his wife are expecting a fourth child, with Vance calling for more babies in America. Elon Musk is reported to have 14 children and said in 2021 that civilization will crumble if people do not have more children. Italy’s far-right prime minister Giorgia Meloni aims to address low birthrates and an ageing population described as the “demographic winter.” Viktor Orban previously proposed Hungarian children and announced a lifelong income-tax exemption for women with four or more children. Falling birthrates are often blamed on liberal individualism and women seeking working lives, and the issue is linked to the new right’s immigration focus.

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