MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: How PM can burst Starmer's balloon trends now
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Perhaps the most startling result in The Mail on Sunday’s Deltapoll survey today is that 37 per cent of respondents think Labour would deal better with the Channel migrant crisis, and just 28 per cent think the Tories could handle it more skilfully.
This result is totally absurd. Nothing in the recent history of the Labour Party has shown that it is interested in, or capable of, controlling migration. During the Blair years, it deliberately sought higher migration, partly in the hope of ‘rubbing the Right’s nose in diversity’ and transforming the country.
But it was even worse than that. By sloppiness and miscalculation, Labour’s policies helped create a wave of mass migration far greater than the party’s own leadership had expected.
And to top it all, the then Labour leader Gordon Brown rudely dismissed one of his own voters as ‘a bigoted woman’ when she raised reasonable concerns about the matter. If anyone deserves to have bad polling figures on the migration issue, it is Sir Keir Starmer. But there is no justice in such ratings.
If anyone deserves to have bad polling figures on the migration issue, it is Sir Keir Starmer
As Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is fast discovering, political life is unfair. When a party is in trouble, it has to fight twice as hard to win any battle.
Well, then, that is what Mr Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman should be doing. With determination, and by intelligent spending, they can greatly reduce the numbers crossing
