In Labour’s 2025 General Election manifesto they promised a new returns and enforcement unit, with an “additional 1,000 staff”. Simple commitment you’d have thought…
Now Home Office Ministers have finally confirmed in a written answer that rather than hiring 1,000 “additional” staff to join this new unit, they actually ‘redeployed’ existing Home Office staff to “increase delivery of the government’s returns and enforcement priorities”. So, not new staff…
Meanwhile, small boat crossings are running ever higher. Guido will be revisiting the manifesto regularly…
Kemi Badenoch defended her decision not to force Tory councils to hold elections in May, telling GB News:
“It is Conservative policy that we should have elections, but I’m not a dictator. You know Nigel Farage, no one else makes any decisions, he’s a one-man band.”