Ahead of last autumnโ€™s appalling migration figures, Number 10 had decided that however bad the numbers were, they wouldnโ€™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 yearsโ€ฆ the government reluctantly allowed Robert Jenrick to develop a package of measures.

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