Jenrick calls for a decade of departures

BRITAIN needs a decade of emigration to end the “age of being open to the world and his wife”, Robert Jenrick has declared.

- By Michael Knowles Home Affairs Editor

The Shadow Justice Secretary also called Boris Johnson’s points-based system the “worst public policy mistake in my lifetime”.

But he welcomed Reform UK’s plan to deport 600,000 illegal immigrants and went further by saying small-boat arrivals should be detained in “rudimentary prisons, not holiday camps”. The former Tory immigration minister, who quit over Rishi Sunak’s approach to legal migration, was speaking to The Spectator magazine, published today.

Damaging