Treating immigration as a problem that needs to be controlled is wrong, says Gideon Ben-Tovim. Plus letters from Priyanjali Malik, Peter Wrigley, Laurie van Someren and Peter Dewar
The excellent article by Gaby Hinsliff (The Tories should be proud of Britain’s migration numbers – and they have Boris Johnson to thank, 25 May) and your editorial (25 May) together encapsulate the necessary reframing of the tired numbers-driven immigration debate that has gone on unchallenged for decades.
The bipartisan political and media-amplified consensus that immigration is a problem needing to be controlled should be robustly challenged as these articles have done – as has Sadiq Khan by recently saying London needs more, not less, immigration.
