Inside the 'fantasy politics' of Small Boats Week that split Tory MPs and ended in humiliation

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Inside the 'fantasy politics' of Small Boats Week that split Tory MPs and ended in humiliation
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He also admitted the Government has failed to tackle the Channel crisis – a “gift to Labour”.

As one former Tory government adviser put it: “You get some people who are suggesting the Government shouldn’t talk about it , as it demonstrates failure. It does in a way, but at least it shows the Government is trying.

“They won’t liberalise the asylum rules around those applicants seeking to work and passing security checks to do so. “They’ll take the same tack as they did with the barge and say they wouldn’t stop doing it immediately.” “Lee [Anderson] has given Labour an absolute gift. This was always predictable with someone who is a gobshite and desperate for his own publicity.”as it helps keep the right of the party in line if they believe quitting is genuinely under consideration.

“It wasn’t in our election manifesto so we’d have no mandate for doing it in this Parliament, so I think that’s very unlikely,” he said.

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