he said sort of cryptic things, migration is too high, yes, i think 700,000 were there it s too big, but today, for the first time in this campaign, he s been clear about a commitment to get the numbers down, which that is a different thing to saying i think it s too high, why? should the next general election be around that time, people like you and me will say you made a commitment in the last general election, how have you delivered against it? i also think it s significant because of the politics of it and the politics of it are pretty obvious and we should bill it out anyway. this is keir starmer, yet again, as he has every day since, though, it was a bit different at the start, he is trying to basically bash voters over the head with a message that he is moving the labour party way to the right of where it was in 2019 and 2017 general elections when their approach to immigration would ve been quite different to this. that is the message here. we can see this is the mess
but borisjohnson stood outside downing street and said to fix the nhs you have to fix social care and i will do it . theresa may had her calamity in 2017. that was the real turning point in this country. they made a decision and they said, we are going to win this election, let s get the public to endorse something that in different times might be unpalatable. and it collapsed their general election campaign. i am sure there are people in both party hos thinking in an ideal world whether we would put detail, complex, tricky plans on social care in there, but why would any party strategist do that after what happened to theresa may in 2017? anybody who works in a hospital or in the health service as a gp or even social workers, anybody would tell you this is something that is having huge problems, it has terrible impacts on families lives and that goes around the uk because health is devolved. there are really profound problems in this country with how we care for our vulnerable and