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So Suella's putting asylum seekers on a barge

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The Benefit of the Doubt

I get the idea that labor is perceived in some ways being softer on this stuff and that it's something for Sunak to rally around. But when you've been in for 13 years, all you're basically doing is pointing to something and saying, hey, you see that? You see that over there? We haven't done anything about it, but we've got this good idea about something in a way that we can do something about it. And at this point now, the margin or the benefit of the doubt, even among the government's own supporters for them to do anything about it is very slender. There was an amazing poll at the weekend showing the conservatives miles and miles and miles

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