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Migrant crisis is out of control

uella Braverman’s description of the migrant crisis as an “invasion” was “unwelcome” and “unwise”, but her choice of language should not allow us to be “deflected from the central problem”, says Tom Harris in The Telegraph. Migrant numbers are soaring. In 2019, 1,843 “desperate people” crossed the Channel; this year the figure is expected to reach 60,000, an increase of more

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