Home secretary tells BBC that Labour is ‘willing to distort the British political system’ as Rishi Sunak campaigns in Staffordshire
Keir Starmer is taking questions at an event in Hitchin.
Asked about James Cleverly’s claim this morning that Labour would try to “gerrymander” the system so that it can stay in power (see 8.47am), he says he is “not taking any lectures from him” about elections.
The only intervention recently [on small boats] that Keir Starmer has had on this is this weird dog whistle attack on the Bangladeshi community where he’s claiming that that we are not returning people to Bangladesh which was, A, not true and, B, not relevant, because the Bangladeshi community make a tiny, tiny, tiny, less than a half a percent of small boat arrivals.
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