Stephen Daisley Stephen Daisley

Now is not the time to change tack on migration | 31 December 2018

Of what is happening on the Channel, we know this for certain: it is not a crisis. Only 239 foreign nationals have crossed unauthorised since November, a rounding error in the 625,000 legal migrants and 15,170 asylum seekers and other protectees granted leave in the UK in the year to June 2018.

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