Ahead of last autumn’s appalling migration figures, Number 10 had decided that however bad the numbers were, they wouldn’t announce any policy measures in response. But when the numbers came out and it emerged that migration was running at such a pace that 1 in 60 people in the country had arrived in the last twelve months alone, and that net migration was adding a city the size of Birmingham to the population every two years… the government reluctantly allowed Robert Jenrick to develop a package of measures.

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