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His original comment rightly sparked widespread condemnation with Keir Starmer describing it as “offensive and wrong”, although Nigel Farage remarked that “unprecedented mass immigration... has changed the character of many areas in our country”.
Slovenian Benjamin Sesko, left, scores for Manchester United against West Ham on Tuesday (Picture: Adam Davy) | PAImmigration has certainly changed the character of Manchester United, co-owned by one J Ratcliffe. On Tuesday, eight of the starting 11 were immigrants.
Hard to say what the score would have been without them, but if Slovenian Benjamin Sesko had not come off the bench, he would not have been able to score a 96th-minute goal to prevent defeat by lowly West Ham.
Football has many lessons to teach us. According to Dr Liz Cameron, who recently stood down as the Scottish Chambers of Commerce’s chief executive, “immigration is not a choice but an economic necessity” for Scotland. Without it, national relegation may loom.