1. Set the right target

“Net migration” includes all persons leaving and entering the UK for a year or more. About one-third are foreign students and more than 80,000 are British citizens. The public has legitimate concerns about long-term migration, not students or British citizens. Omitting them from a new target will cut the official figure in half – and provide a more accurate picture.

2. Reopen the Migration Impacts Fund

David Cameron closed this 2010. Migrants paid into the fund through an additional charge on immigration applications: I know – I paid it as a migrant at that time.

No one denies that migration puts pressure on public services. Local councils, health trusts and charities facing particular pressure should be able to apply for financial support for education, housing and transport, to help them offer more nurses, teaching assistants and buses.