Patrick O’Flynn Patrick O’Flynn

Why have the Tories given up on fixing immigration?

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In the fiercely competitive world of politics, it is not often that an opponent presents you with an Achilles heel that runs the whole way up the back of his leg.

It would be even more unusual for someone presented with such a copious target to then fail to go in hard, studs-up against it. Yet both those conditions prevail in British politics today.

The Labour party’s bizarre attitude towards immigration policy ought to render it utterly incapable of depriving the Conservatives of a parliamentary majority. And yet the Conservatives are conspiring to undermine rather than underline their own natural advantage on this crucial issue.

The Labour MP Nadia Whittome has just reminded us that her party’s approach to the subject is kryptonite for the masses, by sharing her thoughts on it on social media.

‘To stop people dying in the Channel, we must completely reimagine our immigration system. The status quo is free movement for the rich only.

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