Is it desperate posturing or simply gaslighting for electioneering purposes and to grab the headlines? Or is there a more sinister agenda that reflects remedies, imported from America, for an overinflated problem that could win its propagators easy votes? This week’s policy announcement by Reform UK to tackle immigration through changing the country’s settlement system and carrying out mass deportations could only fall into those categories. Such actions are likely to be costly and difficult to implement, while sowing greater division and discord and damaging social cohesion.