Interesting display of Home Office's media campaign hitting its target I suspect. Overall attitudes have remained fairly stable, between 25 and 30%, but a more significant issue for Conservative voters. Even there though it has only hit 50% or over twice, this August and last. 1/
Particularly interesting as, despite overall numbers of asylum applications being down, August is one of the months when we typically see an increase in channel crossings and therefore media attention from some sections has been focused on this in the "build up". 2/
The way in which immigration peaks as a concern in August also suggests though, albeit tentatively, that the Home Office's conflation of immigration and asylum systems, e.g. the whole "jumping the queue narrative" is cutting through with its intended audience. 3/
What, as purely opinion on my part, makes this more likely than people's concerns about immigration in general peaking at these points is the lack of coverage of coverage of wider immigration issues and a significant focus on travel restrictions portrayed as "border closures". 4/
With so much being made of "border closures", coupled with increased focus on asylum seekers, it comes across as likely that it is channel crossings, rather than immigration in general, which people are thinking of here, again despite overall asylum applications being down. 5/

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