This year we may actually have net emigration in Britain – and we will all pay the price. With a low birth rate and ever more stringent migration policies, the UK faces the prospect of a declining workforce, a declining economy, and failing public services.
 
For over a decade here, a deep irrationality has dominated our conversation about migration. Much of the blame rests with David Cameron’s nonsense pledge to cut net migration to “the tens of thousands”.
 
It was oft-repeated but never achieved. Not least because that same government pursued policies that made achieving it impossible. It was their decision to make universities evermore reliant on attracting greater numbers of foreign students and their decision not to expand training places for nurses and doctors, meaning we needed to import more health workers. They slashed adult education funding and cut further education budgets, so we weren’t training enough skilled workers across various sectors of the economy.
 
But despite the obvious contradictions Theresa May, the Home Secretary at the time, boasted about creating a “really hostile environment” for migrants and sent “Go Home” vans around the most ethnically diverse parts of London.
 
The Windrush scandal, in which British citizens were wrongly deported, gave a brief respite to........

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