Dr David Starkey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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He didn't explain it.
You see what I'm trying to get at?
All sorts of people...
beginning to understand the problem, but they're understanding it in a fragmentary way.
Similarly, Sunak, Rishi Sunak, in one of his Times columns, actually
admitted when he talked about the Rwanda scheme.
And he said, well, in retrospect, what we should have done was change the law before we tried to introduce the scheme.
In other words, that the legal structures that I've been talking about made absolutely guaranteed its failure.
So what they did was something profoundly stupid.
They, again, it was lightly stressed.
They adopted what's a good policy.
Rwanda is something like Rwanda is the only way we're going to deal with.
It's how Australia dealt with it.
It's how Italy is beginning to deal with it and so on.
But they did it without making it possible.
In other words, they walked straight into an open trap.
And repeatedly, British government is doing the same thing.
Mahmood is going to find all the sorts of things she wants to do will face unless she does what I think will be unthinkable, which is reversing great slices of this new Labour legislation.
She will find not simply that her backbenchers won't do it, but that immediately the legal jaws
will snap shut.
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