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Visit can-dowealth.com for more information. Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them.

I'm William Moore, the Spectator's features editor.

On this week's episode, I'll be looking at Rishi Sunak's response to the migraine crisis,

Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, and the joy of hating

the Qatar World Cup. First up, in his cover piece, Patrick O'Flynn asks whether Rishi

Sunak can navigate the migrant crisis. He joins me now with Sunder Katwala, director of the

think tank British future. Patrick, could you start by talking our listeners through the numbers

that we're talking about here and why you think they've grown so much? I think the crisis really

begins in the public mind. With Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister, the first coverage of

small boat crossing starts then. And Boris, in one of his first statements to camera, as Prime Minister

says, we will send you back. And at that stage, we're dealing with a few hundred during the year.

And then it comes the year after a couple of thousand, then eight thousand, you know, 18,000, 28,000, and we've now hit 40,000.

And the sending back never happened.

If it had been nipped in the bud, I think it could have been controlled.

But now the government's faced with presiding over a system where more than ever our agencies are actually escorting illegal arrivals into

Britain with a vanishingly small prospect of them ever leaving and it's obviously leading

to public outrage, a feeling the social contract is being broken.

There was even a story in Kent from the county council

about their public services for long-term residents being under strain,

no spare school places.

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