Oh dear. It’s ‘Stop the Boats’ week in 10 Downing Street as the government tries to set the news agenda over the long summer recess. There were early signs of success as Suella Braverman’s pledge to target ‘crooked‘ immigration lawyers ran across various news outlets along with plans to crackdown on migrant traffickers in Turkey. However, the party is now in the news on boats for a reason that was not in the No. 10 media grid.
On Tuesday evening, deputy party chairman Lee Anderson discussed the topic with Nigel Farage on his GB News show. However, rather than adopt the government line of talking up the plan to stop the boats, Anderson turned on the government instead — stating that the Tories have ‘failed’ on this:
This is out of control, we are in power at the moment, I am the deputy chair of the Conservative party, we are in government and we have failed on this.
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