Rishi Sunak has just finished a press conference on his flagship legislation to curb illegal crossings in the Channel. The Prime Minister said the legislation would enable him to ‘keep my promise’ to the public to stop the boats and that it would ‘break the business model of the people smugglers’. He said ‘this is tough, but it is necessary and it is fair’.
Sunak set ‘stop the boats’ as one of his five priorities at the start of this year, and they are emblazoned across every press release from Downing Street. This evening, that pledge was also on his lectern in the No. 10 briefing room. He insisted that he was confident that he could deliver on this promise in time for the next election, otherwise he wouldn’t have made it a priority.
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