This is one area where Brexit doomsayers such as I have been proven wrong. So why is he so unhappy about it?
The Government can avoid worsening it. But that requires as bold a deviation from ordinary policy as the extraordinary relief efforts we saw before.
In yesterday evening’s showdown debate, the politician and the expert were excessively polite to each other.
We can encourage greater international trade and investment without writing off Britain’s working classes.
At the last election 81 per cent of voters believed that a Conservative victory would mean fewer migrants. The party’s manifesto explicitly promised that “there will be fewer lower-skilled migrants and overall numbers will come down.”