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The Disentangling of the Faith Family and Flag

I think there's a bit of wishful thinking going on, John. The bulk of the public are pretty pragmatic on immigration. They want us to have control over it as a country. And they accept that it's needed economically. If you make the case for immigration in that sense, I think you can win it actually if you make it in those terms. There are particular issues where the public is probably more socially conservative than most politicians,. including quite a lot of conservative politicians. It's worth pointing out that when Michael Gove pitched up at the National Conservatism Conference, he sort of read them the riot act and said so-called culture war issues were not really going to help the

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