Deportation talk is all the rage in this summer of bubbling anger and a sense of government drift. The answer – or at least the promise of an answer – is a renewed focus on the link between crime and high immigration. A focus which many liberals chose to ignore or relativise has moved from the speeches of Reform leader Nigel Farage – who has argued that sex crimes featuring Afghan men are far more common than in the British-born population – and Robert Jenrick , the shadow Justice Secretary, who expressed fears of his own daughters encountering “men from backward countries who broke into Britain illegally”.

This is not so much a political “ dog-whistle ” as an entire canine chorus. It resonates with voters who have had adverse experiences of the impacts of immigration, but it also spr

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