A Conservative Peer has said the Prime Minister appears to have ‘picked a side’ on tensions over illegal migration which he said were shown in his reaction to the riots
Shaun Bailey said he did not believe the government had a solution for dealing with migration, as security chiefs in Calais warn of tensions between rival groups in northern France.
Speaking on GB News Shaun Bailey said: “There are three things to say. Firstly, it's clear that Labour have no plan for immigration, legal or illegal. They simply don't. And when they ran in the election, there was a suspicion of that and I think that's coming true.
“Secondly, the gangs in Calais. They're not even the gangs that he has to address. He needs to address the gangs at the source and he has absolutely no way of doing that unless he has a relationship with those countries. So, he won't do it.
“And thirdly, if you want to keep our communities in this country safe, the first thing you do, you have to have a balanced, realistic chat. As a PM, you cannot pick a side. If you pick a side, or come back to haunt us all.
“The point is, they've never expressed the plan and you cannot make you cannot make that plan up on the fly.
“But the most important thing here is, don't pick a side. That's what, for me, Keir Starmer has done. His comments about the far right and the way and the way these riots are playing out: I had a very long chat with some young black boys yesterday, and they came to the conclusion that he had picked a side.
“And if the rest of the public feel that way, we'll have long term community problems. That’s what I’m worried about.
“I think the government have not dealt with it with enough nuance. I spoke to a number of young people. I went around and spoke to people, and one of the things they were saying, ‘Well, why are things being dealt with differently?’
“Because they were students, one of them took me all the way back to when some students attacked CCHQ, and he said that was welcomed by some Labour MPs.
“And the other student talked about Just Stop Oil and how they were treated slightly differently. So the government may have acted decisively, but the question could become, why didn't they act decisively against anybody else? That's the problem.”
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