Welcome to this week's Favourite Sunday Sermon. You may remember last week I spoke about the lies being told, the untruths with regard to net zero, and this week has been no exception.

The exposure of how we, the British people, have been completely misled. We've been lied to once again. This time it's the ongoing topic of immigration, because we've had the latest numbers out for the whole of 2023, the number of visas issued to live permanently in the UK.

You remember we've been told that immigration is good for the economy, it's good for us all, it's going to make us all wealthier and more prosperous and more diverse and more multicultural and that's all a great thing.

But you also remember Boris Johnson, Conservative manifesto 2019, saying that immigration numbers were going to come down. Yes, they were going to be reduced - particularly low skilled immigration - below 200,000 in a year.

So the number this year soared once again, up to 1.4 million people visas issued. That's a city the size of Birmingham in 2023.

A similar number of visas were issued in 2022, and it's now March and I think in 2024 it'll be a similar number again.

Now this is a precursor to the net numbers that are going to be issued by the Office for National Statistics in the back end of May.