Matthew Brooker, Columnist

Tories Can’t Hide From Their Failures on Immigration

Conservatives insist on making immigration a core campaign issue while consistently missing their own targets to restrict it.

Pressing them where it hurts.

Photographer: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Europe

This is part of a series on what 14 years of Tory rule have delivered for Britain’s economy, society and standing in the world. The challenges awaiting the next government are numerous.

Immigration is moving closer to the center of the UK’s general election campaign. It’s an area of huge vulnerability for the Conservative Party.