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Have we got immigration right?

The UK seems to have made a mess of its immigration – are we making the same mistakes here?

By Karl du Fresne In Commentary

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11th July, 2013
One of the “very, very big” mistakes of the British left, says author David Goodhart, is that it failed to anticipate the consequences of the mass immigration unleashed by the Tony Blair Government in the late 1990s. In his recent book The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration, Goodhart lays bare the breathtaking scale of the demographic revolution the UK has undergone. More immigrants now arrive on British soil in a single year than in the entire period from 1066 till 1950. In the 15 years after New Labour came to power in 1997, net immigration of non-British ...

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