![]() We had taken in the children of Jews in the late 30s. We had taken in Jews fleeing Nazi persecution and now we would extend the same offer to the Ukrainians. The Govester then went on to outline the details of the scheme before praising the generosity of the British people. There was only so much you could expect a totally incompetent home secretary to concentrate on. Patel had done such a marvellous job so far that it would have been a mistake to pile on the extra pressure of supervising the new homes for Ukraine scheme. So he began by praising the work of the Home Office. ![]() He would have been just as happy stabbing any of his cabinet colleagues in the back. One that oozed self-promotion and insincerity in equal measure. This was death by a thousand cuts.īut Gove likes nothing more than someone else’s discomfort, so he put in one of his trademark Commons performances. Johnson might just as well have done the decent thing and fired her there and then. To complete her humiliation, the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, made a guest appearance even though she wouldn’t get to speak. Too much, even for someone as thick-skinned as her. So it was Gove who came to the Commons to make the statement on homes for Ukraine, the government’s plan to welcome more refugees to the UK. Or to at least give the impression of not messing it up. Not because his department is ideally suited for handling a refugee crisis, but because he is just about the only cabinet minister who can be trusted not to mess up such a sensitive, logistical problem. Instead, The Suspect has now handed over responsibility for immigration to Michael Gove, the levelling up minister. ![]() No one had any confidence that Patel could organise an adequate humanitarian response and so no one even bothered to ask her. It reached the point where the Home Office was considered to be a failed state in itself.
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