Pity - in spite of more than a quarter of a century of negotiations over Turkish membership of the EU - a final decision continues to be deferred ... ... or things might have turned out very differently for this young man and others like him.

As regards the couple's family income ... it ought to be borne in mind that there still remains a staggering 40 percent of the entire British workforce whose gross wage is less than £18,600 pa. ... how often must I repeat myself in this respect?