Last week, at the annual Edinburgh Television Festival, Rylan Clark entranced audiences in an interview with his wit and all-round charisma. It was one of the best sessions I had seen in 37 years of attending.

He appears to be a good, kind, tolerant person, whose live-and-let-live attitude, inclusive of all humanity , is a joy to witness in a divisive world.

So why, oh why, oh why, did he open his mouth presenting on This Morning to weigh in on t he subject of migrant boats? Not only was he out of his depth; he was drowning.

Stressing that he is not against legal immigration that he says built the country (and saved his mother’s life in the NHS), he went on to rant about the boats carrying illegal immigrants who get four-star treatment while many of our own citizens go hungr

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