A HUGE post-2019 rise in immigration is a minor story the public would not take any interest in, Conservatives and their newspapers have agreed. 

Leading Tories have dismissed the net migration figure rising from 150,000 a year in 2019 to 950,000 in 2024 as a non-story only of interest to woke liberal bean-counters, not real British people.

Shadow foreign secretary Chris Philp, after his initial surprise that was indeed his role, said: “Immigration figures? Do you think your average Conservative voter gives a fig?

“No, the man on the street in Stoke-on-Trent is far more concerned with issues that affect him directly, like the scandalous decision to remove landowners’ exemption from inheritance tax or imposing VAT on private schools.

“I honestly don’t think most of Britain even knows what an immigrant is, let alone has an opinion about them. They’re as opaque an issue as non-cleared cocoa futures derivatives. Who cares if that number goes up?

“That immigration rose by 530 per cent under a Conservative government? Just one of the many indexes that soared in that blissful time, like inflation, fuel bills and quality of life.”

Tory voter Roy Hobbs said: “If it mattered to me, it’d be on GB News. And they gave it the same prominence as a Brazilian pig-farmer becoming the world’s oldest man.”