Times letters: Time for a frank debate about immigration

Sir, Immigration is the highest it has been for centuries and is clearly out of control, indeed the scale it has now reached poses dangers for our society. We accept that highly skilled immigrants can be a benefit to the UK, but scale is important. Net migration reached 670,000 in the year to last June. This is three times the level of 2021, yet during the last general election the government repeated its promise to reduce it. This is bound to damage the credibility of our system of government, and in the longer term there will be a growing impact on social cohesion. Some towns and cities are now majority immigrant: in London, for example, 63 per cent of the population are from ethnic minorities