We haven’t even got Brexit done yet but one of the key factors in the Leave vote is already sorted. At least that is the public perception.

Nobody would dispute the fact that taking back control of immigration was one of the significant reasons why many voted for Brexit. It’s not racist to think that some areas had struggled to cope with migrant numbers.

For many Remainers who accepted the outcome of the referendum (and yes, they do exist), one upside of the Leave victory would be allowing the UK to decide who could and couldn’t come in.

On the morning after the result was announced, an apparently shell-shocked Boris Johnson pledged: “We can control our own borders in a way that is not discriminatory