The Tories’ rhetoric on immigration has alienated voters

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Suella Braverman has become detached from our lived reality (Getty)

I read Andrew Grice’s column with interest and agreement. I feel that the public have more on their minds than the channel crossings by desperate people, when as always a different more humane approach could be found.

It is a fact that Britain needs migrants to fill the ever-increasing labour shortages, and for Suella Braverman to state that British workers will need to be trained is not going to hack it. Every sector from care to agriculture needs men and women who are up to speed with this work, and wherever they come from should not curtail this placing of their necessary skills.

I agree with Grice that Braverman has become detached from our lived reality, and this continuing lurch to right-wing politics of the Conservative party should worry and alienate many people. Her comment that multiculturalism “is a recipe for communal disaster” is way off the mark and does this government no favours at all. The Tory right think they are making a clarion call for the masses; instead, I would imagine that the more savvy public have switched off from this ever-increasing incendiary hyperbole.