Dr David Starkey
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So I think there's a series of really increasingly ridiculous postures being struck that do conceal fundamental agreement on policy.
I don't know whether I have you read, because what's happening now is each one of these three parties is starting to produce serious written stuff.
And if you look, Harrison Pitt wrote one of the most impressive documents on how we deal with immigration and how we deal with illegal immigration for Rupert Lowe.
And if you look at the central section of that document,
It takes my idea of the great repeal, the undoing of the Blairite constitutional settlement, as the absolute necessary step.
It calls it the great clarification or something.
It likely rechristens it, but it takes it as central policy.
Look at what Badenoch has done.
She has just got the conservative shadow Attorney General, Lord Wolfson, to write a detailed paper on repealing the central piece of legislation, which will be covered by the great repeal, which is the Human Rights Act.
She's also now come out in favor of repealing one of the most important sections of the Equality Act, the public sector equality duty.
at the PSED.
If you again look at, even more strikingly, Chris Philp, the shadow Home Secretary, has come out with saying, we will bring in legislation to remove all forms of judicial intervention in the process of appeal against asylum.
against the failure to grant asylum.
In other words, you will remove that judicial oversight, which is primarily why, as Rishi Sunak recognized, along with everybody else, Tony Blair recognizes in his memoirs, you can't actually get rid of asylum seekers.
We could stop the boats tomorrow.
If the lawyers said yes, the lawyers will say no.
And as I pointed out, when I heard Zia Yusuf talk about this at the IEA, if a Nigel went into Downing Street and ordered the first sea lord to deploy the Navy and persisted in ordering him, he would find himself arrested for contempt of court.
But they're all recognizing this.
Every one of them is recognizing this.
And Nigel is fully committed to the repeal of the Human Rights Act.
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