Dining across the divide: She's not unwelcoming or racist but she thinks immigration is creating a brain drain elsewhere'

"When I say I think there's too much immigration, I'm basing that off the 900,000 figure, which I think is from 2023. My reasoning is that if we're thinking about migration as something that happens not just to the UK but to the world, in many cases the UK government is recruiting workers from countries like west Africa, where there's a skills shortage. I don't think that's an ethical thing to do."

"It was a bit of a cultural hodgepodge, the menu, German but also Korean I had a hotdog for my main, we also had an oyster. We had a few cocktails as well. Samuel I had a lobster roll and an oyster, followed by a Korean doughnut."

"Catrina, 24, London Occupation Currently unemployed, was previously a caseworker for a hospital homelessness team Voting record Has voted in two elections Lib Dem, tactically, when she lived in south Gloucestershire; then Green Amuse bouche When Catrina was sent home from university during Covid, she worked in a mortuary, then used that experience for her dissertation"

Samuel is a communications professional who left Labour after joining the Green party and has published a whimsical book about philosophers' dogs. Catrina is 24, based in London, currently unemployed, and previously worked as a caseworker for a hospital homelessness team; she voted Lib Dem then Green. Catrina worked in a mortuary during Covid and used that experience for her dissertation. They described each other as personable and intellectually curious; Samuel wore a pink wedding suit and Catrina returned from a Silk Road trek. They ate a mixed German-Korean meal and debated immigration, with Catrina raising ethical concerns about recruiting skilled workers from West Africa and Samuel framing the issue as avoiding a workforce vacuum rather than racism.

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