Migrant muddle
IRELAND is now finding out the hard way what happens if you allow unfettered access across your borders.
Tomorrow the Irish Justice minister will meet James Cleverly to demand Britain take back illegal Channel migrants now flowing into the Republic from Northern Ireland.
James Cleverly will meet with the Irish Justice minister tomorrow amid a new crisis over the country’s bordersNiall Carson / PA Wire
The Home Secretary will almost certainly resist this as laughable nonsense – not least as it is likely to be impossible to police without border checks.
But what Cleverly could suggest in return is this: Britain will agree we are a safe country and take back illegals from Ireland — only if France does the same for us.
That would stop the small boats and the unnecessary deaths and smash the smuggling gangs forever.
But President Macron — having pocketed over £650million of British taxpayer cash while miserably failing to stop the crossings — has always refused to do this.
The leaderships of Ireland and France show how desperate the EU still is to use migration to punish Brexit Britain.
Ireland wants freedom of movement but insists the UK take back those it can’t afford to house.
France just wants to dump the migrants on us.
Meanwhile, other European countries are queuing up to impose their own Rwanda-style schemes.
Ireland’s new migrant crisis is proof the policy is already acting as a deterrent before any planes have even taken off.
In the meantime, the hopeless Home Office might want to urgently find out how thousands of migrants arriving on dinghies in Dover are suddenly ending up in Belfast.
Losing the plot
THERE’S a simple message for the Tory plotters hoping to remove another Prime Minister: Don’t.
Rishi Sunak may be facing a grim set of local election results on Thursday.
But any MPs tempted to unseat him must resist such a crazy plan at all costs.
Sunak is frustrated at voters not listening to strong policies on small boats and defence or giving him enough credit for bringing stability to the economy.
But the main reason they’ve stopped caring about the Conservative message is the tiresome clownshow of Tory infighting.
There simply isn’t time for a new leader to make any significant difference.
And there’s absolutely no appetite for it among the electorate anyway.
Tories should stop the pointless clawing at each other.
Instead they need to concentrate their fire on Sir Keir Starmer and Labour’s non-existent policies.
It’s the only way for the Conservatives to avoid catastrophic defeat.