Labour thinks it can win on immigration. Their new strategy was road-tested today at PMQs as backbencher Olivia Bailey opened the session saluting Keir Starmer’s gang-busting policies. ‘Internationalist co-operation, shared intelligence and joint law enforcement,’ said Bailey, ‘are the best way to end the vile people-smuggling trade.’
Starmer rose to agree with his stooge. ‘The broken immigration system’ of the Tories is being fixed, he said, and 9,400 people ‘who have no right to be here’ are being rounded up and sent packing. ‘We got the flights off the ground,’ he boasted.
This blew Kemi Badenoch off course. She wanted to talk about Louise Haigh, the ex-transport minister.
‘He knowingly appointed a convicted fraudster to the cabinet,’ said Kemi. ‘What was he thinking?’
Kemi’s off-hand comments are apt to sound foolish
Starmer blamed the evil Tories for everything, naturally, and said that Haigh’s prompt resignation made a telling contrast with the previous government. Kemi tried again.
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