French police approach migrants attempting to cross the English Channel from northern France to Britain, July 17, 2025.(Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)

To say that that many Britons are unhappy with the scale of immigration into their country is an understatement. Not traditionally a country of mass immigration, the change the U.K. has seen over the postwar decades has, to use a neutral term, been astonishing. At best, British voters acquiesced. The increase reached some sort of peak (so far) in a massive surge of arrivals in the early 2020s, the so-called “Boriswave,” under Boris Johnson, a nominally Conservative prime minister.

I wrote a bit about this fiasco (too weak a word) last year:

Although the Brexit referendum was decided narrowly, polls indicated that,

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