By BBC News
Staff
A number of papers report on figures to be released today that are expected to show net migration reached record levels last year.
The Daily Telegraph thinks the data will "expose the chasm between the government's tough rhetoric and the reality of an immigration system running out of control", while the Sun warns the increase is "unsustainable for our housing stock and public services".
The Daily Mail says the Conservatives "really are in deep trouble" after 13 years of failing to fulfil pledges to curb migration. "If they can't control our borders, what's the point of them?" The paper asks. The Times urges Home Secretary Suella Braverman to "cease posturing, park her ambitions, and get on with building a migration system that works".
The Times also reports that the Cabinet Office is considering a legal challenge after the Covid public inquiry requested access to hundreds of WhatsApp messages sent between Boris Johnson and other ministers during the pandemic. Officials are said to fear that handing over full, unredacted details will set a "dangerous precedent" that all internal government communications could end up being made public, harming future decision-making. The paper says the government also believes that disclosing the messages would breach the Human Rights Act and data protection laws. Those arguments fail to persuade the Daily Mirror, which insists that, if the inquiry can't establish the facts, lessons can't be learned.
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