The Tories risk being seen once again as the “nasty party” by trying to win votes with a full frontal attack on human rights.
Now senior party figures are worried that people might see them as not very nice.
Well, who would have thought it?!
It seems like the horse has bolted on this one a LONG time ago.
Could it be videos like this that have given people a certain view of the Conservative Party…
Or indeed this? Who cares about the rule of law?
Suella Braverman tweeted: “Lawyers who game our asylum system by lying are a stain on the legal profession. Today I chaired a roundtable with @AlexChalkChelt, regulators and members of our new taskforce to crack down on rogue lawyers and support more prosecutions.”
Who can forget deupty party chairman Lee Anderson who has been branded a “fascist” and a “pound shop Enoch Powell” for telling asylum seekers who don’t wish to be housed in a barge to “f*** off back to France”.
No 10 has defended the Tory deputy chairman…
Tories nasty party
David Lidington, the former justice secretary, said: “In raw political terms, I think they are ignoring the risk that a lot of people who traditionally have voted Conservative would find such a move very offensive.
“They will want to see a Conservative party that sticks by treaties and which is seen as on the side of human rights at a time when human rights are under attack from our genuine ideological foes around the world.
“There will be a subsection of the electorate who will like this and want a hard line, however rational or irrational that policy is. But I think that they will be at least matched and probably exceeded by the number of people in seats, particularly suburban seats and home counties seats, who will be at best unimpressed and at worse seriously repelled by this kind of rhetoric and such a policy …
“The risk of us being tarnished then as the nasty party again, I think, becomes very real.”
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