Political correspondent
Summer holidays in politics provide a big opportunity for opposition parties.
A cool news agenda means a chance to break with policies.
Many government sources have told me that they feel that the UK has defeated both the conservative and Liberal Democrats in the August battle to attract August.
It may be that Nigel Faraj’s summer crime campaign helped on Tuesday’s conclusion: The party’s long -awaited illegal immigration strategy unveiled.
A couple of people present at the news conference at an aircraft hanger in Oxfordshire told me that what was the most notable was not only the boldness of policy, but how much money the party spent on this incident.
“It was like a TV type show,” one said.
This suggests that the party continues to attract donors – a frequent suggestion that a fresh premierership is possible by the Rai’s surveys.
Since April, reform has gained an edge over labor according to these surveys.
Research suggests that illegal immigration for voters is also one of the top issues, although there is evidence that many have a limited understanding of illegal and legal migration in the UK.
So has Nigel Faraj changed the debate on immigration?
Possibly since 2018, the increase in small boat crossings has been a major factor in crystallizing voters’ concerns. It is a very visible, striking and relatively new form of illegal migration.
These arrival makes more than one third of those claiming asylum in the UK – many others arrive on visas and then put in a claim.
Yet the record number of crossings has become a symbol of widespread concern that the refuge system is not working. And the Prime Ministers have fought to fix it.
Rishi Sunak tried to “stop the boats” and failed. Kir stormers also made a major commitment on immigration – to “break the gangs”.
No party is arguing that people traveling dangerous in the English channel are good. And so the UK’s political debate focuses on who can solve this issue and how.
The solutions to the proposal of political parties have become more radical in recent months, now investigating with the conservatives whether to leave European Convention on Human Rights,
Labor government is promising to introduce new laws by the end of the year to use some of the conference to prevent legal delays in refuge cases.
Nevertheless, the reform is undoubtedly proposing the most radical solution – which involves releasing the conference completely.
Nigel Faraj’s plans to deal with illegal immigration are large and will host legal and practical challenges.
In his long political career, he has been accused of not taking interest in policy details regularly, and his colleague Zia Yousaf was repeatedly postponed when he questioned the policy of reform in Tuesday’s news conference.
The policy document assigned to the attendees was just four pages long, even though a party source insisted that it was a summary of reform – still secret – 100 page plan.
Questions are being asked about how to improve unacceptable children for improvement, as well as the threats to return countries such as Afghanistan to unsafe countries where they can potentially face torture or death.
Faraj’s response was: “Certainly nothing has to be done … We cannot be responsible for all sins that occur around the world.”
Labor -shifting strategy
Labor’s ideal way of combating Nigel Faraz is fixing the backlog in the shelter system and preventing the arrival of small boat.
Nevertheless, the party’s strategy to deal with improvement below the surface is also changing.
Some people argue that number 10 remains in the use stage: “We throw luggage at them and see what clies”, how an officer described the strategy.
But three sources told me that the government is working seriously to treat the schemes for conscious improvement and is investigating them in detail.
As part of that effort, the party sent a list of 24 detailed questions to journalists about Nigel Faraj about their plan before their publication.
A source said, “We want to force Nigel Faraz in the policy area, where they have to dodge the questions, and look like every other politician.”
However, the reform leaders are well aware that politics is practical along with emotional arguments.
And for now, elections suggest that it specializes in identifying and artifying voters’ concerns. Even if they can be more difficult to solve.