TORY leader Kemi Badenoch appears not to recognise that she is playing with fire. Her address and those of her shadow cabinet ministers in Birmingham this week have contained as much dog-whistling as a TV programme with the late Barbara Woodhouse.Stopping the boats? Check. Mass deportations of “illegal immigrants”? Check. A beefed-up Ice-style force to hunt them down at the rate of 150,000 a year? Check. Little or no public assistance for asylum-seekers awaiting a decision? Check. No more recourse to the European Convention on Human Rights and its court in The Hague? Check.

TORY leader Kemi Badenoch appears not to recognise that she is playing with fire. Her address and those of her shadow cabinet ministers in Birmingham this week have contained as much dog-whistling as a TV programme with the late Barbara Woodhouse.

Stopping the boats? Check. Mass deportations of “illegal immigrants”? Check. A beefed-up Ice-style force to hunt them down at the rate of 150,000 a year? Check. Little or no public assistance for asylum-seekers awaiting a decision? Check. No more recourse to the European Convention on Human Rights and its court in The Hague? Check.

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