It is somehow fitting that during an Olympic Games a department of Her Majesty’s government is busy smashing records.
In the very week that a man ran the 400 metre hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics in a previously unthinkable time of sub-46 seconds, the Home Office presided over the arrival of 482 irregular migrants on the south coast of England in a single day.
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