Blood on their hands

WHEN Priti Patel unveiled her bold plan to deport illegal Channel migrants to Rwanda, we warned that opponents would try every trick in the book to block the crackdown.

Today, depressingly, we are proved right. A nexus of professional agitators, hardLeft unions and progressive lawyers are taking the Government to court to prevent the first planeload leaving.

Unsurprisingly, one of the law firms is close to the Labour Party, which is itself more than happy for illegal immigrants to stay here on the taxpayer.

By exploiting the legal system to block these removals, the Left is colluding in evil trafficking gangs’ trade in human cargo. They have blood on their hands. POLITICAL sages have urged Mr Johnson to offer Jeremy Hunt, who is scheming to become Tory leader, the post of Chancellor as part of a ‘dream team’ to stabilise the party. How ludicrous! But given the insipid arch-Remainer was chief assassin in Monday’s failed coup against the PM, wouldn’t he be better suited at the Home Office – as minister for knife crime?