Often people who are (understandably) not familiar with the intricacies of Islamic female dress use the term 'burqua' when they mean niqaab or hijab - or as a catch all for all Islamic head coverings.

I would also add closing loopholes. Usually these will be tax-related, but not exclusively.

I believe the same could be said about learning to communicate with the media through years of Football Manager.

The full league table of the 16 political figures tested.

And fewer than a third can name Ed Davey.

Fewer than four in ten can name Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch.

Nigel Farage is just behind Keir Starmer. Just under three quarters could name him from his photograph.

I agree. One film focussing more on Han, one on Luke and the final one on Leia. But the allure of subverting expectations became too great after the criticism of TFA for being derivative. And from then on it was over correcting the over correction.

There are figures for “detected” arrivals (ie the massive majority of small boats), but none for undetected. Even if we assume that only half of such arrivals are detected, they would still be less than 10% of the total.
It is, in fact, a non-problem.

We also gave some thought to use of the word ‘majority’ as opposed ‘more than half’. In the end we went with the former because it more closely matches the language used on this subject. In doing that, however, it is reasonable to assume some respondents will not know what it actually means.

Various attempts have been made at estimating the number, but not well and not recently. If you can point to a reliable, verifiable estimate, I would be happy to post it out and would love to use it for future work.
The government does not publish this data - and I am not sure it even has it.

Some (Bluesky exclusive) details on the methodology for this. We wanted to present the ‘true’ figure to respondents but it is VERY difficult to get any kind of decent data on what that 'true' number actually is. Obviously, by its very nature, measuring illegal activity of any kind is really tough.

Yes - and in that respect, very similar to things like spending on international aid. If you think we spend too much, the actual numbers will almost certainly not matter.
And on aid spending we actually have verifiable numbers - something that seems sadly absent when it comes to illegal immigration.

This then, unsurprisingly, correlates closely with the belief that immigration and asylum is an important problem.

This reminds me of shopping in Tesco (maybe Morrisons) in Sheffield in the 1990s and the woman in front of me in the queue buying just KY Jelly and a single dinner plate.
I thought I was being very funny by asking the cashier "I wonder where she's going to put that plate". The cashier disagreed.