We will not Help the Poor of the World by Impoverishing our own Country

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column

 

Did Jesus want Britain to increase its population by seven million people in 20 years? That is the number of migrants who have come to this country in that period, utterly and permanently changing the country in many ways.   

 

I had no idea that Our Lord had any such policy. In fact, my searches of the scriptures reveal no clear guidance on mass immigration as such. On the other hand, I am quite sure that both Labour and Tory governments have...