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Robbie Griffiths

Tory tirades against migrants won’t wash in London

Bile against immigrants has become a major part of this Tory leadership race. One dreads to think what our two would-be prime ministers, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, will pledge to do to refugees by the end of September.

That’s been particularly strange to watch from London, surely one of the great migration success stories. By always talking about migrants as a threat, they risk forgetting that our city relies on people who weren’t born here — those from abroad or closer to home.

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