How Enoch Powell, Margaret Thatcher and Suella Braverman Weaponised Migration

Immigration has proved to be a major political hot topic in the United Kingdom since the 1930s.

With the strong support of sections of the media, politicians railed against the arrival of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.

Later, the post-war presence of newcomers from the West Indies and south Asia fuelled an even bigger outcry.

Enoch Powell, was the first senior Conservative MP to break 'official silence' on the "migrant influx" with his 'Rivers of Blodd' speech and was promptly exiled to the political fringe.

Yet, Powell's concern was chanelled a decade later by Margaret Thatcher, looking to gain political traction in the run-up to the 1979 General Election.

The media and public opinion success of her ITV "swamped" interview, helped to establish migration control as a key feature of Britain's political debate thereafter.

This debate is more heat than light.

The UK's Migration Observatory is unequivocal (https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/) and (https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk....

"Migrants pay more into UK public finances than they take out. Immigration contributes more to revenue than it costs in terms of government expenditure."