If Nigel Farage wanted headline treatment for his immigration speech at Oxford Airport this morning, he certainly got it. So far the reaction has been fairly predictable. But politically, there is a good deal more to this affair than meets the eye.

The difficulty faced by Farage’s opponents is that, whatever the details, the man’s underlying message rings entirely true

One’s first thought, which is probably correct, is that he might well not be able to deliver on his ambition to remove 600,000 people unlawfully here in his first term. An average of 120,000 removals a year is a tall order, especially when opposed tooth and nail not only by carefully-primed lawyers and the entire liberal establishment but also by a number of people who have little respect for any legal niceties when it com

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