The UK is not populated by anti-immigrant racists, whatever Suella Braverman believes

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The home secretary Suella Braverman (Getty)

The news that net immigration hit 606,000 last year was received with howls of anguish from those who see immigration as a self-evident “problem”. They were led by Rishi Sunak, who insists the numbers are “too high, it’s as simple as that and I want to bring them down”.

With breathtaking hypocrisy Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, blamed migrants for “placing an intolerable pressure on public services”, as if the Tories haven’t been carrying out vicious cuts to public services for over 13 years.

The mainstream media, ever happy to stoke anti-migrant hate, turned to Nigel Farage for his opinion and he obliged them by declaring the figures show “a total breach of trust between voters and this government”.