It seems that walls have become "racist". Worse, walls have become synonymous with US Presidential candidate Donald Trump. Or at least that is the case if you are on the political Left in Britain and are looking for any way you can to stop Britain pursuing a policy of normal border security.

Yesterday the Immigration minister Robert Goodwill told the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee that, as part of the government’s efforts to secure the situation in Calais: "We are going to start building this big, new wall very soon. We’ve done the fence, now we are doing a wall."

Portions of the Left promptly made the comparison between a British minister saying the word "wall" and a Republic Presidential candidate uttering the same word. Sections of the media then gleefully reported that the immigration minister had earned "Trump comparisons".