>Do not assume this is just a new MP trying to make a name for herself as a hardliner: it’s a position reflected in a draft bill presented by shadow home secretary Chris Philp back in May which, hilariously, no one had previously noticed. The bill, British Future’s Sunder Katwala has noted, would mean revoking legally settled status from up to 400,000 people, with no exceptions for having a British spouse or children. The FT’s Stephen Bush reckons its terms are so stringent it would mean deporting a greater proportion of the population than Uganda’s Idi Amin did. There has been some push back from within the party, admittedly, but it is notable who is not pushing back. The plan is “broadly in line” with party policy, says Badenoch’s office.
Something very funny about them being so irrelevant nobody noticed how batshit their bill was, if not for the fact that it’s utterly reprehensible that we have the opposition doing things like this in the first place
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>Do not assume this is just a new MP trying to make a name for herself as a hardliner: it’s a position reflected in a draft bill presented by shadow home secretary Chris Philp back in May which, hilariously, no one had previously noticed. The bill, British Future’s Sunder Katwala has noted, would mean revoking legally settled status from up to 400,000 people, with no exceptions for having a British spouse or children. The FT’s Stephen Bush reckons its terms are so stringent it would mean deporting a greater proportion of the population than Uganda’s Idi Amin did. There has been some push back from within the party, admittedly, but it is notable who is not pushing back. The plan is “broadly in line” with party policy, says Badenoch’s office.
Something very funny about them being so irrelevant nobody noticed how batshit their bill was, if not for the fact that it’s utterly reprehensible that we have the opposition doing things like this in the first place