
UK Government Promises Again To Stop Illegal Channel Crossings
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said “enough is enough,” but the Conservative Party’s seriousness on the issue has been brought into question.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said “enough is enough,” but the Conservative Party’s seriousness on the issue has been brought into question.
Immigration is a primary concern among Conservative voters. A staggering 97% of Conservatives and 80% of Brits overall believe that ‘the government is doing a bad job.’
Thanks to this result, the right-wing coalition led by Meloni is now in charge of 15 of the 20 regions that make up the Italian Republic.
The real problem facing us: if we are not allowing members to vote for their leader, we have to concede that there must be a different reason for those members to feel valued. Yet, there is no easy fix here.
The real question we should be asking in terms of illegal immigration is (Suella Braverman aside) whether incompetence is genuinely sufficient to explain Tory feebleness in the face of this problem?
While ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak and former PM Boris Johnson thus far have not announced a run, they are already leading the pack, having received the backing of quite a number of Tory MPs.
Names of candidates to replace Truss are already floating about. These include former rival Rishi Sunak, House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, and even former PM Boris Johnson.
Facing inevitable electoral oblivion, in an odd way, affords the political Right a rare opportunity. With absolutely no chance of keeping Labour out of Number 10 (nor any possibility that they could prove worse), the nation finally has the opportunity to bury the Tories once and for all, and unite behind a genuine conservative coalition.
In response to questions, an automaton-like Truss kept on reiterating her desire for high growth. Her party, let alone the nation, is unlikely to take heart from its Prime Minister’s latest performance.
Truss seems happy to keep disappointing the right flank of her party. Truss’s approach to immigration may also tank her popularity with voters who expected a government willing to sacrifice the absolute value of GDP for a stronger, more socially cohesive nation.