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News UK UK Politics Rishi Sunak – live: PM insists small boats policy going ‘better than expected’ days after new crossing record Friday saw record numbers of crossings for this year - with 686 arriving on UK shores
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Your support makes all the difference. Read more Rishi Sunak has insisted his crackdown on small boats is going “much better” than expected, despite record numbers of boat crossings.
Speaking to reporters on his way to the Nato summit in Lithuania, the prime minister denied he was wrong to claim his small boats policy was working last month.
It comes after Friday saw record numbers of crossings for this year - with 686 arriving on UK shores.
The prime minister said he had always predicted that the numbers coming to Britain would rise during the summer.
He said his policy had to be judged on the trends when he took office.
“The fact that they (numbers) are down for five months of the year, the fact that they are still down, even if it’s less, than what people are expecting is a much better result than anyone was expecting,” he said.
He added: “We need to get people out of hotels, we need to save the taxpayer billions. We need to get the backlog down. But fundamentally we need to do what it compassionate and fair.”
1 year ago Who is Gal Luft, the man who claimed to have dirt on the Bidens? Andrew Feinberg explains why everyone is talking about the Israeli-American academic.
The Israeli-American academic only claimed to be a ‘whistleblower’ after his arrest earlier this year, writes Andrew Feinberg
Oliver O'Connell 13 July 2023 08:50
1 year ago Comment: It’s ‘angry Joe’, not ‘sleepy Joe’ – don’t be fooled by Biden’s ‘nice guy’ image One of the worst-kept secrets of Washington is that Joe Biden has a short fuse. According to Alex Thompson, who is writing a book on the president, “behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him”.
The president is prone to shouting and swearing at staff, and “there is occasionally a menacing and humiliating tone to his diatribes”, Thompson said.
What do reports of the US president’s temper tantrums suggest about angry men in politics, asks John Rentoul
Oliver O'Connell 13 July 2023 09:50
1 year ago Marjorie Taylor Greene wants Biden to withdraw US from Nato Far-right Rep Majorie Taylor Greene has introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorisation Act that “directs the president to withdraw the US from Nato.”
Surprisingly that wasn’t the theme of President Joe Biden’s speech in Vilnius on Wednesday in which he celebrated the transatlantic alliance.
President Biden expressed the US’s ‘ironclad commitment to NATO’
Oliver O'Connell 13 July 2023 10:50
1 year ago Biden hails ‘unbroken’ Ukrainian people in Nato speech Speaking of which, here’s that speech to an exuberant crowd at Vilnius University:
Mr Biden told an exuberant crowd that Western unity in support of Kyiv’s defence ‘will not falter’
Oliver O'Connell 13 July 2023 11:50
1 year ago Voices: Biden is finally winning the election from 4,515 miles away This past week, President Joe Biden has been abroad, first in the United Kingdom and then in Lithuania for the Nato summit. But perhaps the biggest boon he has received is back home on the domestic front, as he has received a series of good economic news.
Job growth and inflation on a decline might have Joe Biden humming ‘the best is yet to come’
Oliver O'Connell 13 July 2023 12:30
1 year ago Despite divisions over Ukraine War, Biden and Zelensky share mutual praise Balancing those two goals has been difficult, and the tension was on particular display at the NATO summit in Vilnius this week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an emotional, even caustic, demand for a clear path toward joining the alliance.
But Biden, who was to try to showcase NATO’s strength in a sum-up speech Wednesday evening, was not willing to take that step, even as the United States continues to provide more weapons and ammunition than any other country to Ukraine.
The competing priorities in the midst of Europe’s bloodiest war in generations created an undercurrent of friction even as Biden and Zelenskyy projected a united front during their meeting as the summit drew to a close.
Enthusiastic crowds gathered at Vilnius University for Biden speech on sidelines of Nato Summit
Oliver O'Connell 13 July 2023 13:00
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