In June 2014, in response to an alleged Islamist plot to infiltrate schools in Birmingham, Tebbit wrote in "The Daily Telegraph", "No one should have been surprised at what was going on in schools in Birmingham. It is precisely what I was talking about over 20 years ago and Enoch Powell was warning against long before that. We have imported far too many immigrants who have come here not to live in our society, but to replicate here the society of their homelands."