If the Bell Hotel closure was upheld, it would set a precedent across the country and there would be thousands of people with nowhere to put them which would make an already difficult situation ten times worse. Nick is parroting divisive far-right lines because he has nothing else meaningful to say

More long term, I think Labour needs to look at the fiscal strategy. The prospect of delivering any meaningful change seems distant when the Treasury is constantly slashing departmental budgets and welfare spending in response to OBR forecasts which change every week…

It’s far less about European “free-loading,” as Vance claims, and far more about decades of US policy that has, by design, made Europe militarily reliant on the US. Dismantling that system would have major consequences, ones they’ve given no thought to