DAN HODGES: From quaint village halls to grimy pubs, the same drumbeat is echoing in this election campaign. The boats, the boats, the boats...
Daily MailIan, who runs the local butcher's shop, is not without compassion. I've arrived in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, the former Nottinghamshire pit town, three days after Nigel Farage's dramatic announcement that he's returning as leader of Reform UK, and standing for Parliament, in what he claims has become 'the immigration election'. A group of migrants are pictured approaching Calais after making the perilous journey by boat as police officers watch on Britain's political class doesn't want to hear it. A broken promise to 'take back control' of migration, writes Dan Hodges 'I don't mind if people are here to work,' she insists, 'but all these men in dinghies? 'We've got to a situation now where people are that p****d off that they're not being listened to, they're using language they wouldn't normally use.
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