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The view from Burnistoun

Minutes into the first election debate, viewers were shaken to their collective flabby core when David Cameron told of a conversation he’d had with a 40-year-old man in Plymouth.

This man told Cameron that he was “so ashamed” of the immigration system. The sting in the tale? The man had emigrated here as a child and he was black.