The posters were published yesterday by the Home Office. They warn asylum seekers, among other things:
Lucy Powell appeared on LBC and defended the posters:
“I think it’s it’s pretty straightforward that we should be explaining to people and being clear about the the expectations, the rule of law in this country.
People coming from other countries do have different different cultures, and we have to be absolutely clear with people of how much we abide by the rule of law in this country, what the rule of law is about, and that if people break those laws, they will be treated very harshly.
They will be deported. They would have any claim to asylum completely squashed at that at that point as well.
So it’s I think it’s right that people understand the expectations and the consequences if they break the law in this country, and that’s something that we have to constantly educate lots of people about, and and that’s important that we do so.”
No wonder Labour is having Rwanda guilt…
Keir Starmer’s ex-chief of staff Sue Gray has given both barrels to her former colleagues in Number 10, claiming it was “unbearable” working in Starmer’s team and lamenting the briefings against her during her (brief) tenure in Downing Street. She told Ed Balls on the Political Currency podcast:
“Stories about supposedly trying to move Morgan McSweeney to the back of the building. Actually, that was a genuine … ‘I can’t believe so many of you are going to sit in this small room. Let’s find a better room for you.’ It just got to the point where you know everything you say, you feel somebody is recording it…
I talked to [Starmer] a couple of times about it, and I don’t really want to disclose individual conversations. But I was disappointed that not more was done because I think it could have been done… [the atmosphere was] definitely unbearable, particularly for me…”
Gray was one of the first major departures from Starmer’s catastrophic administration. She can probably take comfort in the fact that so many others followed…
Shabana Mahmood is drawing up a Rwanda-style scheme to remove failed asylum seekers to third countries, two years after Labour scrapped the actual Rwanda plan on the grounds that it was “a gimmick“. It turns out ‘smashing the gangs’ wasn’t a deterrent after all…
Mahmood said in an interview with the Sun:
“We are also looking at third-country hubs, returns hubs models. These are live conversations that are happening across Europe, but in other parts of the world as well… The most important thing I think in any deal that we strike now or in the future is about its effectiveness. Is it actually going to be able to do the thing that it says it’s going to do? Can it do so in a way that is compliant legally as well?…”
No deal has been announced yet. Separately Mahmood promised a “fairer spread” of asylum accommodation across the UK, echoing Burnham’s ominous comments last week. Coming to a village like yours soon…
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Andy Burnham is billionaire-funded. He has Lord Sainsbury to thank for his leadership campaign getting buttered…
The PM has today as a new MP published his interests stretching back a year. Explore all of Burnham’s declaration below:
| Lord Sainsbury of Turville | £164,347.42 |
| Charlie Parsons Creative Ltd | £50,000.00 |
| Sacha Lord | £35,390.20 |
| Gary Lubner | £25,000.00 |
| ThinkLabour | £22,186.00 |
| Ernst & Young LLP | £16,500.00 |
| Trade unions (FBU x2, CWU, UNISON) | £20,000.00 |
| Shalni Arora | £10,000.00 |
| Sony Music Entertainment UK | £3,800.00 |
| Bloomberg UK | £2,505.68 |
| Lord Blunkett | £2,000.00 |
| Marketing Manchester | £2,000.69 |
| All other donors | £5,324.00 |
Meanwhile Angela Rayner has declared that her book advance is in fact £76,500 – despite her deciding not to publish it after all. She also declared £2,400 in earnings for four hours of presenting on LBC. Nice fee…
Rayner earned £84,000 for speaking engagements after leaving Cabinet, but said this morning that the hours were so sparse that this doesn’t count as a second job, which she said should not be allowed for MPs. Pull the other one…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”