Author Douglas Murray has commended human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s comments as “completely true” after she noted that within three decades she has started to see Europe resemble the Islamist country she fled.

“What Ayaan said there is completely true and, indeed, evident,” Mr Douglas told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“It’s evident because if a population grows that is effectively, in large part, unassimilated or has views the rest of the country finds abhorrent or distasteful – if that particular demographic grows, and grows and grows, of course, they’re going to have more and more impact.

“If we continue in this situation where the political class both accelerates immigration massively, totally fails at integration … and then tells the general public, as they do, that it’s all a conspiracy theory that the immigration is happening … it will happen if it goes on like that for sure.”