Pete Lunn
speaker
192 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Aug
Pete Lunn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They think it's much, much bigger than it is, right?
It is big, though.
And if we keep talking like that, they will continue to... Well, hang on.
Is it or not?
David, if you could just let me speak for a second.
I haven't said it isn't.
What I'm telling you is that the research shows that people misperceive it.
They think it's bigger than it is.
I accept it's quite high.
And I accept that it's been high for a few years now, particularly post-COVID.
But it's important to understand a couple of things.
People misperceive the level of it.
They think it's higher than it is.
They misperceive the proportion of people who are asylum seekers seeking international protection compared to the people who come in for work and education.
They misperceive how many immigrants are in social housing and they misperceive how many immigrants are in the prison population.
So the tone of this debate has led to widespread public misperception about the scale of immigration.
Why does that matter?
Because the research shows that those misperceptions are linked to negative and hostile attitudes to immigrants.
So there is a distortion in the way we're having this debate.
There is no question that there is an international right-wing movement that is pushing immigration as a wedge issue among populist politicians.
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