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Home Affairs and Justice

Indeed. One is not sustainable without the other: that much is clear from experiences around the world. If those are the three acid tests—an immigration system that works, a system that plans for the consequences, and a system that boosts integration as well as immigration—I think that, on all three counts, the Government's record over the past decade has been spectacularly disappointing. It is also depressing that, during the past two weeks, the Conservatives have seemed to be unearthing their old immigration prejudices, and indulging in the fantasy notion that we can somehow turn the mass movement of people across the world's borders on and off like a tap. Quite simply, our country—on this issue, and on counter-terrorism—deserves better.