It has become increasingly difficult to argue that migrant-driven population growth is leaving Britain better off
Nowhere is the policy failure that seems to have engulfed virtually everything the Government touches more apparent than immigration.
I don’t know why anyone was surprised by last month’s revised data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). As a source of information on the economy, the ONS has become about as reliable as a number 16 bus – so much so that the Bank of England has come to prefer the reports of its own agents in the field to the official ONS data when assessing the economy’s true state of affairs.
In any case, it has been obvious for a long time now that the ONS has been wildly understating the extent of the surge in net migration. You only need to look around you to see the transformation that has occurred in the size and mix of the population.
