Mike Freer’s announcement is a significant milestone. As he prepares to leave the room, Labour is knocking on the door. We have little sense of how it would rearrange the furniture.
First, Islamist extremism will use woke like a human shield. Then, once it has exhausted its purpose, it will cast aside, like that LGBT flag last Saturday.
Politicians urge zero tolerance – but there’s a gap between law and enforcement. If the Met can arrest 155 anti-lockdown protestors, why can’t it do the same to pro-Hamas ringleaders?
During the half century since the Yom Kippur war took place, conflict abroad has increasingly meant consequences here.
Rather than agonising over whether new arrivals are fitting in, the Government instead invested in ensuring that they have the tools they need to do so.
What is less recognised is the way in which David Cameron’s Government decided, not without risk to the Conservatives’ electoral prospects in some key marginals, to withhold patronage and money from some Muslim organisations that, fitfully, had gained both under Labour.
The two candidates have less than ten days to bring to the campaign her conviction that sticking with the status quo simply won’t do.
Given the likely impact of the outcome in Afghanistan on flows of refugees, improvement will be more important than ever.
Among our recommendations today, Localis is urging central government to further reduce the tax burden on the pub sector.
Whatever guidelines there may be on engagement with organisations, no-one will take them seriously if the Government doesn’t do so itself.
An emergency cross-departmental ministerial meeting must take place – to ensure there’s a strategy for Hong Kongers’ arrival.
If we don’t push back against encroaching regulation, there is a very real risk that coercive policies can – and will – overstay their welcome.
Doing so would improve social integration, enhance the contribution that migrants make, and allay public discontent over immigration.
Don’t expect Downing Street to bother too much about what MPs or the media think as it prepares to shake up government and Whitehall.
The confidence to walk the streets safely, the right to interface directly with our elected representatives, the ability to speak our minds freely – these fruits of peaceable British toleration are being eroded by an extremist tendency that has grown unchecked for far too long.