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7 December 2023

The Tory right is at war with reality

The levels of self-delusion over the Rwanda plan suggest the party may be incapable of being led.

By David Gauke

If one wanted a case study to encapsulate the travails of the Conservative Party, the Rwanda fiasco is hard to beat.

We start off with a genuine problem: people – mostly young men – arriving on the Kent coast and claiming asylum. It is disorderly and uncontrolled and a responsible government should want to address it.

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