Enough is enough when it comes to immigration, pronounced the Home Secretary, before he went off to Rwanda to try to sort out the illegal sort.
To which one can only say that it’s a bit late in the day. The measures to reduce net migration by 300,000 a year will only kick in from April, or five minutes before the election. And with 1.2 million people a year entering the country (745,000 net in 2022), it’s not quite the Taking Back Control that Brexiteers promised in 2016. It’s good as far as it goes — it was mad that employers could undercut wages by paying immigrant workers 20 per cent less than locals — but it still allows for more than the population of Tower Hamlets to enter the UK every six months.
