General Article First it was no to Polish plumbers, then Afghan refugees. Now the right doesn’t want any migrants at

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This week’s furore over entirely legal migration proves it was never the kind of foreigner you were, simply your foreignness.

By Aditya Chakrabotty

Few sights are as sad as someone who gets exactly what they want and hates it, yet that is exactly how the British right behaves.

Hacking back the state? They swung the axe for a decade, only to complain about the damage done. Boris Johnson? Once their surefire winner, he has made them all losers. And, of course, there’s Brexit – the summit toward...

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