DAN HODGES: The Tories didn't just lose control on migration - they willingly and knowingly flung the UK's doors wide open
When Home Secretary Yvette Cooper learnt of Thursday's immigration figures – which covered the Tories' final year in power – she was in Erbil, in Kurdish Iraq, signing a new cross-border security agreement. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp had been so confident the new Office for National Statistics estimates would show a dramatic fall he had spent the morning touring TV studios, boasting about how Labour would try to take credit for the figures, when they were really the product of policy decisions taken by his own party. Yvette Cooper in Erbil, in Kurdish Iraq, signing a new cross-border security agreement with the country's minister of interior Abdul Amir al-Shimmari He concluded with a dark warning. Shadow home secretary Chris Philp had been confident the new ONS estimates would show a dramatic fall, Dan Hodges writes So now, having blustered, bleated and deflected on to everyone but themselves, the Conservative Party is going to reap the whirlwind.
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