The Shadow Home Secretary lacks the tabloid news sense needed to decide which of the Government’s many failings to highlight.
Perhaps are finally waking up to the fact that our economic model, relying on government subsidy to provide cheap human capital and debased wages, has only provided the illusion of prosperity.
Four, deep-rooted currents in are carving out space for movements which seek to prioritise the interests, the culture, the values, and the ways of life of the majority group against what they see as self-interested, corrupt, narcissistic, and incompetent elites.
Whilst the clergy can’t wash their hands of their role in appearing to facilitate “industrial scale” conversion to game the system, it is the Government that sets the rules of the game.
The sovereignty of Parliament, as the representative of the people, has been eroded, and power handed to an increasingly assertive bureaucracy.
The NHS which has seen its productivity collapse, and is facing enormous cost pressures as the population ages, must surely be first in line for the application of the tools as they emerge.
The author recalls the high hopes with which Blair entered power in 1997, and the extreme difficulty of devising a viable European policy.
Tory MPs have refused to go and canvas for their candidate, the girlfriend of the disgraced Peter Bone.
Returns agreements arguably have a bigger role to play; speedier processing is also part of the answer. But to pretend that deterrence plays no part in people’s calculations is silly.
For him and his team, the border will be a key priority. It could be the thing that propels them to the White House. In the last month alone, there were an estimated 300,000 illegal crossings across the southern border.
In the previous five elections, the size of the shift in the polling gap between election day and six months before has been between six per cent and 12 per cent towards the Conservatives.
A remarkable amount has been achieved. Often against the odds and in the face of adversity. And certainly in circumstances far less benign than those faced by New Labour.
If we are truly entering an “age of migration” then erecting such barriers around the welfare state is one of the more plausible ways of adapting to it.
The defeat of these parties is above all a task for the moderate Right.
New legislation is not required to enact popular conservative policies immediately. There are great powers on the statute book which give ministers serious leeway to introduce new policies by order or regulation,requiring minimal parliamentary time.