Starmer’s flagship response to sky-high migration numbers this morning is a new deal with the Iraqi government. Yvette Cooper has been out in Baghdad to sign co-operation deals this week…
The deal is made up of:
In other words, £600,000 to Iran’s close allies in Baghdad and £200,000 to the Kurds. Which happens to be 0.017% of the taxpayer cash spent on asylum support in the UK last year…
The UK spends £8.6 million on migrant hotels every day. Co-conspirators may remember the US government handing over $8 billion to the Iraqi police in 2011. Another percentage – Starmer has pledged 0.00677% of that amount to the Iraqi government…
The deal has been floated for some time as Labour has sought to gauge opinions. Despite the exalted “emergency conference” spin this drop-in-the-water deal will raise eyebrows rather than drop migrant numbers…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”