{"id":120899,"date":"2023-11-27T19:09:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=120899"},"modified":"2023-11-27T19:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:09:41","slug":"james-cleverlys-14-days-of-hell-in-tory-civil-war-storm-over-small-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/politics\/james-cleverlys-14-days-of-hell-in-tory-civil-war-storm-over-small-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cleverly’s ’14 days of Hell’ in Tory civil war storm over small boats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tory MP queries government policy on ‘illegal migration’<\/h3>\n

The normally jovial James Cleverly is not a happy man.<\/p>\n

This can be explained quite simply or as one of his allies put it in the most exasperated terms: “He has had 14 days in the job, how is he supposed to have already done what could not be done in the previous 14 months?”<\/p>\n

By which the sally means “stop the boats” and also possibly get the deportation flights to Rwanda in the air.<\/p>\n

To unpack the genuine frustration within this statement we need to roll back a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

Just two weeks ago Cleverly woke up as Foreign Secretary, a job he had thrived in and thoroughly enjoyed, got a call from the Prime Minister to pop into Downing Street and ended the morning as the new Home Secretary.<\/p>\n

In taking the job he replaced the darling of many on the right of the party Suella Braverman who was unceremoniously sacked by Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n

That sacking alone caused an eruption on the right of the party who saw it as “a declaration of war” and has led to intense speculation over whether Sunak can even survive until the next election.<\/p>\n

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When it happened old hands like former Boris Johnson ally Nadine Dorries claimed that the change of job had been an attempt to ruin Cleverly’s reputation and stop him becoming leader one day.<\/p>\n

People laughed. But as Nigel Farage famously once said: “They’re not laughing now.”<\/p>\n

In what one ally described as “14 days of Hell”, Mr Cleverly has discovered that he has not only inherited the most difficult policy brief in government at the most under fire department but has found himself plunged into the nexus of the Tory civil war.<\/p>\n

It is not like things have been quite on other fronts as the “sh**gate” row proved.<\/p>\n

He also had to deal with the increasingly problematic anti-Israel marches involving glorification of Hamas terrorism and open anti-Semitism which the Metropolitan Police appeared to be reluctant to take firm action against.<\/p>\n

But it was the Supreme Court decision on blocking the Rwanda deportation flights which has riled most Tory MPs.<\/p>\n

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