Rishi Sunak’s small boats plan will cost billions - but there’s still no evidence it will work The Prime Minister’s performative politics seems directed more at a UK audience than an overseas one, writes PaulWaugh
And it was that phrase “sense of progress” that highlighted the PM’s political game. The update was part of his strategy of telling the public to give him more time to sort a problem that none of his recent predecessors has managed to resolve.and its plans to effectivley criminalise, detain and deport anyone who arrives in the UK through unauthorised routes.
Some Conservative backbenchers are relieved that the PM has a plan, whatever the weather. The late Tony Benn used to divide politicians into two types: signposts and weathercocks . On migration, Sunak is a signpost, who really does believe in his hardline proposals. . The risk for Sunak is that in trying to cut the billion-pound bill of housing asylum seekers in hotels, he spends just as much on a policy that may not actually “stop the boats”.is almost the definition of performative politics. But it’s a performance directed as much at Sunak’s own backbenchers and target voters as much as it is directed at illegal migrants.
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