Mark Harper, a talented immigration minister, has just resigned when it was discovered that his cleaner did not have indefinite leave to remain. She was an illegal immigrant. Harper’s departure was honourable and principled. Some might say this made it a rarity in today’s politics.
Despite the headlines, the immigrant to London today is just as likely to be a French banker with a maths degree as a Colombian cleaner. The point is that London simply couldn’t function without large numbers of people from all over the world.
You only have to look around the capital today to see the impact of immigration. People of different ethnic backgrounds, speaking different languages, a variety of international restaurants, even different clothing styles are the effects of decades of movement of peoples....
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