The Commons is sitting this week (Whitsun holiday next week) but Nigel Farage is on holiday this week in France. Since he is reported to own a house in France this just be spending time at one of his non-UK homes.
This meant that Lee 30p Anderson had to stand in for Farage. As someone who believes that migrants and asylum seekers should be welcome here the content of the exchange between 30p and Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions on 21st May is not something I have sympathy with.
However the actual content is secondary here. What Anderson did was to set Starmer to tell an actual joke about Farage that led most MPs, 30p aside, to have a good laugh. It’s the way he tells them unwittingly or not
Q9. This Prime Minister keeps telling his gullible Back Benchers that he has deported 24,000 people from this country since he came into power, but he will not say who these people are. It is my guess that they are people who came on work visas or students and that they were simply overstayers, but I am willing to be proved wrong if he can answer one simple question: how many of these people that he has deported are failed asylum seekers that have come on small boats or on the back of lorries? Answer the question! (904298)
I am very proud that we have removed over 24,000 people: the highest record for nearly 10 years. We are taking other measures to get back control of our borders, including the Borders Bill, which gives our law enforcement enhanced powers, including terrorism-like powers. What did the hon. Member’s party do? What did he do? He voted against them, and I will tell you why: they do not want to fix this problem, because it benefits them not to fix it. Party before country.
It is very good that the hon. Member is standing in for the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) today. There was no sign of him yesterday at the EU summit. He was the first through the e-gates to somewhere in the south of France: Nice work if you can get it!
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