In the week that £100,000 worth of counterfeit goods, including Wonka chocolate bars, were seized by trading standards staff following raids on American candy stores on Oxford Street, Priti Patel came to Parliament and delivered her best Gene Wilder “Stop. Don’t. Come back“ impression.
I’m sure the Home Secretary is crestfallen that we’re all talking about the action, thwarted though it may be, she is taking to combat Channel crossings, how a court with the word ‘European’ in its name has something to do with it, and that Keir Starmer must now to comment on the policy but seemingly can’t come down on either side. (See, as ever, Deputy Political Editor David Bond’s must-read PMQs analysis).
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