The Home Secretary has been brave in adopting the Danish formula so it may seem ungracious to say that she is dealing with something other than the real problem. And that is the enormously high levels of legal migration. Last year saw a decrease in migrant numbers and yet over a million people, or 1.2 million, are estimated to have come to the UK in 2024, a million of them from outside the EU. Granted half a million people left, but the million-plus who arrived mean huge challenges for an increasingly fragmented society. That’s just one year. So, however urgent the problem of small boat crossings, that of people coming here, at least initially legally, is far, far greater.
