Earlier today the Home Office published their migration statistics for last year. Before I go into the numbers, suffice to say they are simply enormous, I want to think for a moment about the politics of this. The Conservatives were elected to power in 2010 promising to reduce net migration to tens of thousands. They failed, but they made the same promise again in the 2015 manifesto. They’re going to reduce net migration to tens of thousands and they failed and then blame it down. In the 2017 manifesto, they promised they would reduce net migration to 10s of thousands. And in 2019 they said th…
