Well, providing those students pay their way and actually do pay for their education here, we ought to be welcoming them. Absolutely.

I’ll deal with Conservatives’ third amendment with a reminder of the Conservative pledges under Cameron before the previous general election. He said:

‘Our plan to control immigration will put you, your family and the British people first. We will reduce the number of people coming to our country with tough new welfare conditions and robust enforcement.’

Though how this was to reduce immigration, given the oft-repeated statement that immigrants do not come here for benefits, appeared to be something of an anomaly. However, he went on to say:

‘We will keep our ambition of delivering annual net migration in the tens of thousands’, not the present hundreds of thousands. ‘We will control migration’—[Interruption.] Did you want to say something, Carl? I will give way if you want. No. Okay.

‘We will control migration from the European Union, by reforming welfare rules’.

Again, intimating that UK welfare rules encourage immigration.

‘We will clamp down on illegal immigration and abuse of the minimum wage’.

Well, we see that that is not being done.

‘We will enhance our border security and strengthen the enforcement of immigration rules’.

And lastly,

‘Develop a fund to ease pressure on local areas and public services.’

All this proves the amendment put forward by the Conservative group, and the points under that amendment, show the turmoil that now exists under the Conservatives with regard to immigration, and that the Assembly Conservatives’ amendments seem to put them at complete odds with their Westminster counterparts.