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…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”