Rylan Clark’s immigration rant on This Morning was wrong

I’ve become used to anti-migration rhetoric and unchecked generalisations about asylum seekers permeating British society, but I can honestly say I didn’t expect to see it on daytime television.

But yesterday, on This Morning, presenter Rylan Clark offered his perspective on the current migrant debate.

In a segment which you’d be forgiven for thinking was a campaign advert for Reform UK, Clark parroted a number of talking points I’m more accustomed to hearing from right-wingers.

Rylan said, after acknowledging that ‘legal immigrants’ help the country thrive, that a narrative persists that ‘it seems, ‘welcome, come on in’.

‘’Here’s the hotel, here’s the phone, here’s the iPad, here’s the NHS in reception of your hotel, here’s three meals a day, here’s a games room in the hotel, have a l