Labour welcomes Conservative deputy chair’s admission but says his ‘back to France’ jibe wrong
Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, has welcomed Lee Anderson’s admission that the government is failing on immigraiton. She told the Today programme:
[Anderson] did admit that the government is failing to tackle the boats crisis. What we need is grip rather than gimmicks, we need solutions rather than just this ramping up the rhetoric all of the time.
And that is the problem – because they are failing, because they have been flailing around for years while they have just made things worse with the policies they have pursued, they have ended up now lashing out trying to promote division and trying to find someone else to blame.
It is clearly the wrong language to use and it is ramping up the rhetoric as a distraction from the fact the government is failing.
The leftwing mainstream media has gone into meltdown over my comments but, interestingly, I am yet to see one Labour frontbench MP disagree with my comments.
Is this another U-turn from Labour because their silence is deafening.
Listen Nigel, I am not going to sit here and make excuses to anyone. 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. There is no doubt about it.
We have said we are going to fix it, it is a failure.
Everything is against us but I am not making excuses. It is slowing us down. If the whole of parliament was behind us on this I am sure this would have got through by now.
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