She says the Prime Minister should not be “jetting off” to Beijing to secure trade deals when China is guilty of human rights breaches.
“It’s very simple, you arrest him, remove his citizenship and remove him back to Egypt,” he says.
Maduro was a “terrible tyrant”, and “we have never supported his illegal, illegitimate government,” she says.
The Shadow Foreign Secretary points out that the Conservative Government took action with legal measures to strengthen national security.
The Shadow Foreign Secretary adds that Donald Trump deserves credit for “finding soutions.”
A ‘lawful’ or ‘chaotic’ binary will shape the fraught relationship between the Conservatives and Reform UK. The reason why Reform is doing so well is that it is a party of pure, if controlled, chaos.
The Shadow Foreign Secretary warns that “Iran is a terrorist state” that “harms the United Kingdom and our interests.”
The politics of immigration are also driven more by asylum than by overall visa numbers. If there is a visible lack of control over small boats in the Channel and asylum accommodation, significant falls in net migration may have little impact on public perceptions.
The Shadow Foreign Secretary declines to say a State Visit for Donald Trump should be made “conditional” on the US stance on security guarantees.
Overall, there is a little more air in this League Table than last month’s, even in the face of the leader’s still-declining score.
She refuses to comment on a comeback to frontline politics for the former PM, but praises his role in supporting Ukraine during the war with Russia.
Is that a vindication of his energetic media strategy, a reflection of the salience of his favoured topics? Or could it reflect, in part, a bit of buyer’s remorse?
It was supposed to be two years before the Conservative Party started spelling out a detailed agenda. But the leadership is discovering that politics abhors a vacuum.
As the Shadow Foreign Secretary’s hopeless TalkTV interview showed, we can’t be under new management if voters see the same politicians defending the same appalling record that caused them to boot us out only six months ago.
The grad visa should also not be seen as a backdoor to transition into low salary work. 20 per cent of grad visa holders switched to care work visas between 2021-23, from which they can gain permanent residency after 5 years. That switch should be banned.