What it does mean though is that we need a more nuanced debate. What is the right balance to strike between these competing concerns and what types of migration are of most benefit to the country? One of the biggest groups of migrants is foreign students. If you polled my constituents they would be pretty hostile to immigration per se, but I have never had anyone say to me, “What you need to do is stop all these bright Chinese and Indian students coming to this country”. Ditto highly-skilled people who are going to be net contributors and create work for others. What my constituents are rightly concerned about is uncontrolled migration from within the EU, abuse of the student and family routes by people who are actually coming here looking for work, low-skilled migrants who compete with our unemployed for work and drive down wages in certain sectors of the economy and all the people who are here illegally.