Home Office minister Alex Norris could not say how many smuggling gangs Labour has “smashed” when asked on Sky News this morning. If even they have no idea…
Pressed by Sophy Ridge, Norris said:
“Well, I don’t think any public policy is is is easier than the press release. Of course, it’s not. We’ve made 4,000 interventions against organized crime since we took office. Well, this is a process that we will deliver over this parliamentary term. I know your viewers, as you do, as I do, want to see those channel crossings reduced.”
Meanwhile, Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ scheme with France has so far managed to bring in more migrants to the UK than it has deported. Everything is fine…
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”