as an issue, and in other roles i've had in government, like, as communities secretary, i was concerned about integration and extremism, about people leading parallel lives. i worked with louise casey and sara khan, brilliant experts on that field, who warned that very large numbers of people coming into the country make it difficult for us to build the united country that we all want to see. as housing secretary, i was one, and remain one, of the most passionate supporters of house building, and i think the housing crisis is increasingly an immigration crisis, because you need to build at least half a million homes a year just to keep up with the numbers of people coming into the country. but you're right to say that in this... or in the role i've had for the last year, i did see first—hand the real—world consequences of mass illegal migration. and i think some people, particularly those leading privileged middle—class lives, can be insulated from those consequences,