'If Sunak fails, Starmer with Sadiq Khan will deliver a Britain we no longer recognise'
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Roger Gewolb delivers his verdict after the latest local election result
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak began his tenure with five promises. He has failed on every single one of them (inflation has indeed gone down, but it was nothing to do with him, Hunt, or the Bank of England England, as I have written elsewhere).
I have also written previously that it is now too late to change horses; it’s just not possible for someone else to step into Rishi‘s shoes as leader of the Tories and take them to the next general election. Even the likes of Suella Braverman now agree with this and she further says that he has got to come up with some new promises, if the Tories are to have any chance of survival at all.
I believe that, firstly, Sunak needs to introduce real tax cuts and not the fake ones that he and Hunt have been foisting on us. Next, he needs to put a cap on legal migration and then leave the ECHR so we can stop the boats and the illegal immigration, which went through the roof again last week. Finally, he needs to clear and take back our streets and public places from the extremist-incited disruptive marches and make our cities safe once again.
He needs to announce and introduce these measures as quickly as possible, to give some time for them to enter the public consciousness and buy him and his totally beleaguered government a shred of credibility at least to begin with.
He needs to stop wasting our time and patience talking about smoking and vaping and chess in parks and artificial intelligence and all of the other issues he means to distract us because it’s not working. He also needs to stop talking about Rwanda, because it’s just not going to happen.
The government’s ridiculous self-promotional exercise about one individual volunteering to get on a plane to Kigali did not fool anyone.
In fact, what is happening about Rwanda is that the authorities unbelievably alerted the people who were to be deported well in advance and most of them disappeared, never to be seen again no doubt.
Many have gone to Ireland apparently, where, because it is the EU, they cannot be deported, and now Sunak is fighting with Ireland about not taking them back.
And, to make matters even worse , civil servants are running scared of the Rwanda plan, and are now trying to mount a legal challenge against it.
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And with all these challenges, does Rishi have any chance of non-voluntary deportation flights taking off in the remaining eight weeks that he promised or even before the election?
No, I definitely think not.
So, it is my belief that Rishi and company have one very last card to play – make some new promises that they can deliver on or at least start to show that they can deliver on in their new government.
Failing that, I think we see Keir Starmer with Sadiq Khan and others delivering a Britain we no longer recognise.
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