Skills minister Jacqui Smith says you can’t blame Labour for small boat crossings. ‘Not our fault’…
“I don’t think it was our fault that it was enabled to take root in the way in which it has done… There are signs of progress, but there is more that we need to do and that’s what we’ll be focusing on. It is our responsibility now and we’re taking that responsibility seriously.”
In a testy interview Smith also refused to say Labour would be able to take responsibility by its second year. Or indeed at any point in the parliament…
Numbers today will confirm that 50,000 small boat migrants have crossed since the election. That is 124 every day, five every hour…
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.”