by Adam McCulloch

Pass the immigration ammunition! The House of Lords economic affairs committee has distributed an arms dump-worth of arguments to all comers. The Daily Mail is crowing, UKIP salivating and Migration Watch throwing street parties in Tunbridge Wells. The Lib Dems and Conservatives, meanwhile are delighted with their fresh grenades and are busily lobbing them at the Labour benches. Yet ministers are catching them mid-flight and hurling them back, for they too are, if not delighted, not unhappy with the verdict from the ‘other place’s’ financial sages.
But this is all a massive contradiction you say, polishing your gleaming bazooka, ready to fire off your immigration views.

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