Rishi Sunak’s Covid inquiry performance showed why he’s struggling
The Prime Minister’s fluency is of little use to him as he struggles to contain a Tory mutiny.
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Sunak’s problems go much deeper than the Rwanda bill
Conservative infighting risks obscuring any policy successes the Prime Minister enjoys.
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Sunak’s insistence he’s in control only proves he’s not
The Prime Minister has been reduced to whining that the world won’t do what he wants.
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The Tory right is at war with reality
The levels of self-delusion over the Rwanda plan suggest the party may be incapable of being led.
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Conservative MPs have given up on the next election
The Tory Party’s open warfare over the Rwanda plan shows Rishi Sunak’s waning authority.
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PMQs today: Keir Starmer skewers Rishi Sunak over Rwanda
The Labour leader has devised a potent line of attack on the government’s flagship asylum plan.
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The Rwanda ruling
The barrister and professor of law Philippe Sands on what the Supreme Court decision means for the government, and the…
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Rishi Sunak’s path to re-election is narrowing by the day
The damage to the government following the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Rwanda plan is serious.
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The Rwanda plan is unlawful – what now for Rishi Sunak?
The Supreme Court’s verdict will trigger a new civil war on the right.
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Keir Starmer pledges to reverse Rwanda scheme even if declared legal
The Labour leader’s announcement opens up a clear dividing line with the Conservatives on immigration.
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The new politics of migration
As conflicts multiply European countries must agree consistent principles for asylum policy, as the alternative is anarchy.
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Suella Braverman has become the Conservatives’ biggest liability
The active glee that the Home Secretary takes in other people’s misery has shattered Rishi Sunak’s pragmatic facade.
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Will the Tories ever resolve their internal battle on immigration?
However far Rishi Sunak goes to placate the right of his party, there will always be calls for him to…
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Suella Braverman dreams of a flight to Rwanda because it could never come true
The UN has suggested the government deportation plan is illegal – and it’s being challenged in the High Court.
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Police report hundreds of crime victims a month to immigration service
Victims of child abuse and domestic violence face possible deportation, as revealed in data seen by the New Statesman.
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Cancelling the Church for opposing the Rwanda policy is deeply un-Conservative
Rebuking the bishops for speaking up for refugees feels achingly wet. / Preserving the institutions of the constitution has been…
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The Rwanda plan has failed but it is more dangerous than ever
Once you dehumanise a group of people, it is a short step to the suggestion that they should probably not…
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Sending refugees to Rwanda doesn’t even make economic sense
Deportation costs seven times what it would to process migrants in the UK.
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The West lets guilt blind it to reality in Rwanda
The British government wants to send asylum seekers to a dictatorial regime rife with human rights abuses.
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You know you’ve gone too far on immigration when even Theresa May is appalled
The champion of the “hostile environment” policy has refused to support Priti Patel’s latest wheeze “on the grounds of legality,…
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