Imagine how different this past month would have been if there was a Labour government instead of a Conservative government riddled with infighting and led by a weak Prime Minister. The Windrush scandal would never have happened, and the Business Secretary would have just announced a radical insulation policy to save households over £1bn and a cap on energy prices would have already been in place saving households over £1,000 since 2010.
Sadly, that is not what happened. Instead, the Home Secretary resigned following her botched handling of a national scandal in which 50,000 legal migrants have lost jobs, been detained at risk of deportation and denied life-saving NHS care.
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