It’s hard to keep up with everyone the Tory MP tipped as a future party leader hates
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i. You there. The foreign looking one. I can see you. Don’t try to sneak away and hide. Your time is up. We’ve had enough of you. And don’t try to play the racist card. It’s nothing to do with the colour of your skin. I hate everyone who isn’t British. What’s that? You have indefinite leave (ILR) to remain? Well, not any more you don’t. Look. It’s not personal. It’s just that you’re not culturally coherent. If you get my drift. You somehow don’t look right. Smell funny. You don’t fit in.
Welcome to the new Compassionate Conservatism. Remember the old days? Theresa May’s hostile environment. Home Office vans driving around towns with a sign telling immigrants to bugger off home. Sometimes you can be just too nice. Well, those days of sweet-talking foreigners are over. It’s now clear they aren’t going to leave of their own free will, so the time has come for mass deportations. Enough is enough. Send in the ICE squads now.
Speak to people inside the Tory party and they will tell you that Katie Lam, the Kent MP who was first elected to parliament last year, is one of their rising stars. Ear-marked for greatness. A future leader. She is already a junior whip, though that’s not particularly remarkable: there are so few Conservative MPs almost everyone gets to do something meaningless. Still, take it from those who care about these things: a Star is Born. Whether this tells you more about the abject state of the Tory party or Katie is for you to decide.
