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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Ford

Why the Tories’ hardline immigration policies won’t win over UK voters

A small boat crossing the Channel from the French coast towards Dover, Kent.
A small boat crossing the Channel from the French coast towards Dover, Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

‘If you don’t fix immigration, immigration will fix you.” This was new foreign secretary David Cameron’s stern warning to US senators, but it could equally have been addressed to parliamentary colleagues back home.

Last week saw the latest in a series of immigration reform packages, yet nearly a year on from Rishi Sunak’s pledge to “stop the boats” his government seems no closer to a fix which satisfies his party or its supporters.

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