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who will be intensely relieved.
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't just political blowback.
It wasn't from other party leaders.
It was from Mark Rowley.
It was from the Metropolitan Police Commissioner himself saying, this is not helpful.
Let me know.
when you know how to police London better than my officers and me, and we can have that conversation.
But we do not need politicians wading in to tell us how to police London and how to stop dangerous suspects who are in the middle of a terrorist attack.
And I think that may have landed quite strongly.
I mean, the interesting thing, actually, just going back to
where the party leaders are right now.
We've also had over the weekend this sort of new policy, I don't know if you'd call it a policy, at the other end of the spectrum, the other populist party, Reform, who are saying, we will invite everyone to vote Reform by telling you that we won't put deportation camps of migrants in Reform voting areas where we win.
In other words, if we get elected, we will start sending immigrants to places that are green, that are Labour, that are the places that we do not have supporters.
And I mean, it's very Trumpian, isn't it?
To sort of think of your country in red states and blue states.
You know, the red states get funding, the blue states don't.
The red states get help in hurricanes, the blue states don't.
in the reform world, if you vote with us, we will keep those areas nice.
The rest of you go hang.
You can have the immigrants all across your constituencies, all across your councils.