Don’t tell her, but Suella has stumbled upon an immigration winner

The Conservatives have a sensible policy on immigration, it’s just that they’re incapable of having a sensible conversation about it, writes Tom Peck

The home secretary is very good at saying what the public want her to be talking about, but not so good at actually talking about it (EPA)

Shall we cast our minds back to the Year of Our Lord 2016? And lo! Who has appeared, in the pages of the Daily Express? “‘Immigration swells UK population by size of Newcastle every YEAR,’ says Boris Johnson”.

About 350,000 a year it was, back then. It’s easy to forget, because there was another big number doing the rounds at the time, which also began with 350 and also turned out to be complete b*****ks.

“So what do we do about it?” Johnson wondered. Well, that’s easy. We “take back control”. So we did. And yet, somehow, seven years later, Newcastle has been upgraded to Glasgow.