Questions raised by an ageing population | Letters

As is usual in such discussions, Professor Sarah Harper’s analysis of the effect of stopping net immigration under Brexit (Brexit-led decline in immigration ‘will raise retirement age’, 16 January) has major flaws – failing to explore the implications of automation/robotics, and not examining the downsides of unending immigration. Her analysis only works short term, and only if other factors remain the same. Automation is likely to reduce the need to maintain the same lev