The longer Number Ten fails to declare, the more cheerfully Labour will pile in – preparing to frame the Prime Minister as a bottler if he waits until after the Budget to rule out a May poll.
Without much more significant progress, the cost of the asylum system to hard-pressed taxpayers is only going to keep rising.
The question is whether the Government can negotiate enough bilateral deals to solve the problem, or has to rely on the Rwanda scheme.
However, he stresses that it’s “relatively early days” when pressed on what has happened to all the others.
The High Court’s judgement earlier this week marks a major step forward in our plans and we are focused on moving ahead with the policy as soon as possible.
When push comes to shove, what will matter will be whether or not the arrivals stop – or at least that the voters believe that the Prime Minister really wants to halt them and is sparing no effort.
You should not have to risk your life in a small boat. You should be able to apply at a British embassy and arrive on a plane.
Here are six recent examples of how the Prime Minister has been mugged by reality.
The hunt will go on – for the logic behind the Home Office’s quest for a nation to host our facilities is sound.
Future deals will be important but they should be viewed as a means to an end rather than an end in of themselves
During the years when the West sought to draw Iran back into the comity of nations, the ayatollahs backed terrorist bombs, cyberattacks, and drone shootings.
The “extraordinary international response by our allies” amounts to “the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers ever”, Johnson says.
Is it truly necessary to keep reciting these arguments? Sadly, yes – in each generation some people are drawn to brutal ideologies.
We will now see the creation of the first task force on modern slavery. Here are further ways for the task force to make progress.
Though any of the 106 members of the One Nation Caucus do worry that declaring Rwanda a safe country in law is a push too far.