{"id":36486,"date":"2025-04-20T20:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/36486\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:24:14","slug":"labour-totally-unwinding-brexit-as-priti-patel-issues-urgent-migration-warning-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/36486\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour ‘totally unwinding Brexit’ as Priti Patel issues urgent migration warning | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brexit is in danger and Labour is putting jobs at risk and presiding over an illegal immigration disaster of its own making, according to Shadow Foreign Secretary Dame Priti Patel. She speaks with dismay of the \u201cpain\u201d she says Sir Keir Starmer<\/a>\u2019s Government is inflicting on Britain. The \u201cjob\u201d of the Conservative party today, she insists, is ensuring Labour is out of power at the next election.<\/p>\n

As Boris Johnson<\/a>\u2019s Home Secretary she laid the foundations for the scheme to send illegal arrivals to Rwanda for processing. Sir Keir declared this \u201cdead and buried\u201d in his first press conference as Prime Minister. Since then more than 30,000 people have come to the UK via small boats.<\/p>\n

The MP for the Essex seat of Witham is contemptuous of Labour\u2019s pledge to \u201csmash the gangs\u201d responsible for the crossings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat an utterly ridiculous slogan,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The problem, she argues, is ever since Labour scrapped the Rwanda scheme the country has lacked a \u201cdeterrent\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Government has failed,\u201d she says. \u201cIt is totally insincere and disingenuous when it says it is trying to deal with this problem. It\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n

She claims other countries which could launch schemes of their own are now in touch with Rwanda and says Labour\u2019s treatment of this \u201cgreat Commonwealth country\u201d is \u201cappalling\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Government should be \u201cbuilding detention and reception centres in this country and doing it fast,\u201d she says, adding: \u201cThey need to get out of their little dogmatic, ignorant corner and they need to start taking on board some of the remedies and the actions that Conservatives<\/a> suggested and put in place previously.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is also outraged at Sir Keir\u2019s readiness to forge closer ties with the European Union<\/a>. Dame Priti worked with James Goldsmith\u2019s Referendum Party in the run-up to the 1997 election and was a leading member of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign.<\/p>\n

Labour, she claims, is \u201ctotally unwinding Brexit<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

There are reports the Government is willing to have common rules with the EU on fresh meat and dairy and accept the oversight of the European Court of Justice.<\/p>\n

Sitting in her Portcullis House office, which has a sweeping view of the Houses of Parliament, she says: \u201cMy fears are they will just tie us back down to a lot of the sclerotic regulation of the EU… They will take us back into the institutions of the EU which we fought very hard to break free from.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is afraid Labour will \u201csacrifice fishing\u201d and argues making the most of Brexit<\/a> freedoms is \u201cmore important than ever,\u201d if Britain is to \u201cthrive and succeed\u201d in a world wracked by instability.<\/p>\n

Dame Priti has lost none of her trademark energy since moving to the Opposition benches.<\/p>\n

This self-described \u201cmassive Thatcherite\u201d has lived a British version of the American dream. Born in London in 1972 to Gujarati parents who came to the UK from Uganda, she entered Parliament in 2010, just as the Conservatives<\/a> returned to power under David Cameron.<\/p>\n

Theresa May appointed her International Development Secretary and Mr Johnson \u2013 who would later make her a Dame in his resignation honours \u2013 handed her one of the toughest jobs in politics, running the Home Office.<\/p>\n

Her campaign for the Tory leadership in the wake of the Tories<\/a>\u2019 summer election disaster did not succeed but her zeal for politics is as strong as ever. For Dame Priti, bringing the Labour era of government to the swiftest possible end is a priority for the good of the nation.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir\u2019s team, she says, is part of a \u201cnational demoralisation project,\u201d adding: \u201cThey don\u2019t stand up for our values, they really don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

She points to Chancellor Rachel Reeves\u2019s shock decision to strip millions of pensioner of support with their heating bills, saying: \u201cI think the winter fuel policy is completely nasty; it\u2019s cruel; it\u2019s vindictive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner<\/a>\u2019s overhaul of workers\u2019 rights will, she warns, result in \u201cmore unemployment\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time they are in power you see the economy go into reverse gear,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Describing a country suffering under the \u201cpain of Labour,\u201d she says: \u201cWe do care about the public, our country, people\u2019s jobs and livelihoods… We\u2019re in touch with people every single day who have concerns and anxieties about what is happening under this Government.\u201d<\/p>\n

An immediate challenge for the Conservatives<\/a> is avoiding another setback in next month\u2019s local elections. Polls now put the Conservatives<\/a> behind Labour and Nigel Farage<\/a>\u2019s Reform UK.<\/p>\n

Dame Priti puts Reform\u2019s success down to widespread disillusionment with politics but argues that when you are choosing who should run your local council \u201cthe reality is you need people with skills and experience\u201d.<\/p>\n

When asked if she would like to see two of her erstwhile comrades \u2013 Mr Johnson and former Business Secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg \u2013 back in the Commons, she says: \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of fondness for my former colleagues, I really have, because quite frankly we fought for Brexit<\/a> together and all sorts of things and I like conviction politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the challenges facing the country and the Conservatives<\/a>, she gives every sign of enjoying the battle. She remembers how Lady Thatcher and Ronald Reagan helped defeat Communism and bring the Cold War to an end, and she wants to take their values forward in this decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s in our DNA,\u201d she says as she compares the UK and the US. \u201cWe are countries of hope, opportunity, the freedom to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in Britain today, she claims, people are wondering \u201chow they ended up with this awful Government\u201d.<\/p>\n

Overturning Labour\u2019s massive majority is a Herculean task for a Tory party now facing intense competition on the Right but Dame Priti is more than up for the fight. She wants to be back in a Government that will stand up to Russia<\/a> and China while standing up for parents, pensioners, farmers and business people.<\/p>\n

As Labour has already discovered, Britain has not heard the last of this veteran Brexiteer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brexit is in danger and Labour is putting jobs at risk and presiding over an illegal immigration disaster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,9895,40,528,20984,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-36486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-illegal-immigration","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-labour-party","19":"tag-priti-patel","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114372166486135057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}