Asked if Mr Powell ‘saw it coming’, he replied: ‘Well no … for different reasons, for different reasons and on a completely different scale.
‘I mean when immigration was being discussed in the 60s and 70s and 80s we were talking about an annual net inflow to the country of between 30,000 and 50,000 people.
‘What we have had in the last 13 years is net four million extra migrants who have come to Britain so we are dealing with something now on a scale that hitherto we couldn’t even have conceived.’
