Remember when the Tories told us “it’s not racist to impose limits on immigration”? Well, someone who worked on the party’s divisive 2005 general election campaign has admitted it kind of was.

Garvan Walshe, a Tory advisor at the time, came clean on social media recently, writing: “We worked assiduously to ramp up anti immigrant feeling.”

@sundersays @Sime0nStylites And from Brown on nobody challenged lies that immigrants took jobs, were here on benefits etc. — Garvan Walshe (@garvanwalshe) February 26, 2017

The adverts were – surprise, surprise – devised by notorious spin doctor Lyton Crosby, who has again been entrusted with the Tory campaign.

Are you thinking what we’re thinking…