“Mohammad Sidique Khan grew up in Dewsbury, a little town where 18 years earlier the parents of 26 indigenous Yorkshire children were demonised by the chattering classes for withdrawing their children from the local primary school because it had become largely Muslim.

“Here is encapsulated the enormous fissure between the kind of people who bomb a train and the kind who want England, and Christianity, to continue as they were before mass immigration began.”

The Daily Mail publishes excerpts from A.N. Wilson’s new book, Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II, which claims that “mass immigration and political correctness have turned Britain into a haven for Islamic fanatics”.