Jonathan Schofield<p>Caught a bit of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/r4today" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>r4today</span></a> where Dr Madeleine Sumption from the Oxford Migration Observatory at COMPAS did a good job of saying, as diplomatically as possible, that, as with the last government’s obsession with Rwanda, today’s slew of ‘stop the boats’ tactics might shift immigration “at the margins”, but not appreciably.</p><p>Diplomatic because, in about half an hour, David Lammy is going to be on the show bloviating about it all, no doubt diligently avoiding reality </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114845298867744130" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@urlyman/11484</span><span class="invisible">5298867744130</span></a></p>