Is the tide turning against 'open' EU?

TO RECALL one of the regular essay instructions from schooldays, it’s time to “compare and contrast” the approach by two different nations to protect their borders — and their citizens.

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Let’s start in the US, where the latest figure for deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement teams since Donald Trump came to power is north of 250,000 — and that’s in under a year.

Obviously, such a vast number is going to include some mistakes, and that is desperately regrettable.

But the reality is murderers, rapists, other sex offenders and drug dealers have been booted out of the country and therefore unable to continue their lives of crime there.

Now compare that with the criminal incompetence displayed by our government, which sought to counter the migration crisis gripping the entire European continent with the risible “one in, one out” scheme.

The latest update underscores the glaring ineptitude of the policy originally hailed by both the Prime Minister and Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, as “a game changer”.