Lock up?

It’s a rare occa­sion when the bick­er­ing fac­tions of the Tory party cease their internecine squab­bling to come up with a policy idea; when they do, it’s usual ridiculed, and rightly so.

Shadow home sec­re­tary Oliver Letwin’s pro­pos­als that all asylum seek­ers be locked up is the latest in a series of policy announce­ments to court the BNP/Daily Mail vote. Two ques­tions, though: with the Tories lurch­ing ever-​further to the right, are Labour going to follow them and steal their voters? And if they do lock up all these asylum seek­ers, where are they going to do it? Not in Oliver Letwin’s con­stituency, anyway.

Posted at 4pm on 28/01/03 by Leon McDermott to the politics category.
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