Sunak could have stopped the boats long ago, putting smugglers out of business, saving lives, by taking up a French offer of facilities to process asylum applications in France Starmer could do it now If it was the boats and the deaths they wanted to stop #politicslive

Free passage on the cross channel ferries and reception centres were and are what was and is, needed. Plus a healthy dose of compassion, an quality missing in the make up of Conservative MPs.