Politicians can always be voted out. And so could Brexit | William Keegan

The Tories, and even Labour, tell us that the country made a decision in 2016'. Yes it did, and now it repents of that choice

The UK is no longer part of the EU. It's not for us to take back the people who land in the UK." So said a European Commission official about the impasse in this country's relations, or non-relations, with our former European partners.

As abject poverty and wars feed the seemingly endless flow of desperate asylum seekers, it becomes clear that the migration crisis is not going away. But the callous response of British ministers - a remarkable proportion of whom are themselves descended from immigrants - really sticks in the craw.