Victims

Brexit disturbs me for many reasons, but one factor has been particularly alarming and disgusting - the reckless way in which immigration has been used in the debate.

Matthew Parris, wrote powerfully about this in the Spectator: "The reliance of the leaders and opinion leaders of the Leave campaign upon resentment of foreigners, dislike of immigration and — in many cases — hatred of immigrants, has been absolutely disgraceful. It should be a stain upon our conscience."

I couldn't agree with him more.

So while Britain today effectively stuck two fingers up at immigrants as it triggered Article 50, it was refreshing to encounter a large, public, open-air photography exhibition in Malaga communicating the desperate plight of refugees.

I just wish everyone in Britain could see the haunted faces, the desperation, the death and destruction in these images as our country "takes back control" and prepares to go it alone towards some apparently bright future as an "outward looking, truly global Britain".

Say what you like, but demonising immigrants is a funny way to reinvent a country as outward-looking and global.