Foreign nationals living in Britain and convicted of a serious crime should be deported whence they came. Who doesn't agree with that? The law-abiding majority does; four successive prime ministers have reiterated it as government policy; and Parliament wants it to happen. Yet we've failed to get to grips with this problem: figures published yesterday show that the number of foreign criminals avoiding deportation actually went up by 50 per cent last year.

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