“Multiculturalism was a non-policy. It was a vacuum, a retreat from thinking that there was any need for a solution. The pretence was that there was no problem, because to admit that there was one was tantamount to saying that immigration was a problem, and that you were going to have to do some serious thinking about its consequences. The idea that many cultures could coexist in one country, going their own ways, living by their own values, and cultivating their own disparate and distinct identities, was always a cop-out.”

Janet Daley in the Sunday Telegraph, 7 August 2005