The Importance of an Honest Debate on Immigration

If you had a drink today, every time you heard on the media, some comment say to pop up saying we need an honest debate on immigration, you would be completely leathered by about three o'clock. I think it speaks to a real sort of mental inconsistency of the British voter that we don't know quite what our response is. If you ask voters, do you want to see immigration go down? Nine out of ten conservative voters will say yes. Most labor voters will actually agree yes, we want immigration to go down. And so actually what it comes down to is this really odd positioning, which is that immigration is this bogey, this thing that we all hate when it