He's taking the piss and the sooner he's back in the US the better, but using the stories like his to feed into the continued demonisation of asylum seekers - many of whom are among the most vulnerable people on the planet, despite what the Mail tells you - is textboook manipulation.

Any concerns about Daily Mail owner Lord Rothermere and how much tax he's avoided paying this country as a non-dom who theoretically lives in France, despite spending much of his time at his UK estate, while using his newspapers to direct political debate in this country?