Don’t listen to the naysayers – immigration is the real Brexit success story

There is a reason why spinning is so important in politics. Parties may have aims and slogans, beliefs and goals, but everything doesn’t always go to plan. Reality often crashes into whatever it was you had planned, and you still need to find a way through that will mean you get to save face.

It isn’t lying, not exactly; merely a constant readjustment, always happening in the background and in public. Oh, you thought this is what we wanted? No, you see, that is what we were always going for, which is why the fact that this didn’t happen but that did is actually a victory for us – easy mistake to make! And so on.

Brexit has been especially tough to spin because, to be blunt, few unalloyed good things have happened so far. Because it cannot be outright lying, spinning needs at the very least a grain of truth to begin with, and there isn’t much great news to go around.