The issue of immigration is a simple one for the Conservative Party: we need to crack down on it in every form, both legal and illegal.
For me, this is about basic fairness. Britain today seems to work more favourably for those who jump the queue, who break the rules, who get into our country illegally but then denigrate our customs and our culture.
And those of us who work hard and do the right thing, hoping one day to leave a better life for our children, are left footing the bill.
The billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money we are spending to put asylum seekers up in hotels, for example, is well known.
Less well known, however, is the fact that low-paid immigrants and refugees who stay here for five years qualify for ‘indefinite leave to remain’.
