We are at the point in summer when parliament has shut down and most of Westminster has disappeared to somewhere on the Mediterranean coast. Given the weather there, one might expect our sweltering politicians to return from their hols agitated about global warming. As it is, the political weather has been set by the voters of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
The Tories appear to have taken a lesson from their unexpected victory there: attack is the best form of defence. The Prime Minister has returned to the issue of asylum seekers and complained about what he is “up against”, namely: “The Labour Party, a subset of lawyers, criminal gangs… all on the same side, propping up a system of exploitation that profits from getting people to the UK illegally.” Presumably this is designed to provoke outrage so that a row rumbles on about the extent to which the Labour Party is on the same side as “a subset of lawyers [and] criminal gangs”. Let us just say that it is not Rishi Sunak at his best, as Will Lloyd delved into yesterday.
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