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Warning, They are coming here. They are coming after us, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis wants the Legislature to take steps next year to offset new hiring at the Internal Revenue Service under a law signed this week by President Joe Biden.

Patronis, who is running for re-election, rolled out Four Pillars of IRS Protection that he wants state lawmakers to consider as a hedge against the new federal law, which includes funding to hire 87,000 IRS employees --- not just agents --- over the next 10 years.

There is documented evidence that the IRS targeted Tea Party groups in 2013, and no doubt the IRS under the Biden administration would do the same to many businesses and organizations in Florida who have professed a love of freedom, Patronis wrote. Florida must force IRS bureaucrats to think twice before once again targeting conservatives.

Patronis wants the Legislature to require state-chartered banks to generate regular reports on IRS engagement to help identify any potential patterns of discrimination and highlight how the new auditors are targeting the middle class and small businesses; set up a civil-liability trust fund to provide some legal assistance for small businesses in tax cases; require new IRS agents to register with the state to access account information; and set criminal penalties for enforcement of any law that was based on a viewpoint or political discrimination.

Former state Rep. Adam Hattersley, a Riverview Democrat who is running against Patronis in November, called the CFOs proposal an ill-timed attempt to change the conversation. Floridians arent fooled.

Trying to rally supporters ahead of the elections, Republicans have locked onto the 87,000 hiring figure, which includes all aspects of the IRS, from agents to customer service. The hiring is included in the law known as the Inflation Reduction Act.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, while campaigning Sunday in Phoenix for Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters and Arizona gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake, said IRS agents will be used to go after people the government doesnt like.

They are going to be sicced on working people; contractors, restaurant owners, people that drive Ubers. They're not going after the billionaires, DeSantis said.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, the former Florida governor who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, warned potential IRS job applicants Tuesday that their potential employment might be short-term if the GOP takes control of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate in November. He said in an open letter that we will immediately do everything in our power to defund this insane and unwarranted expansion of government.

Democrats contend most of the additional auditing will focus on more-affluent people.

Contrary to the misinformation from opponents of this legislation, small business or households earning $400,000 per year or less will not see an increase in the chances that they are audited, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote Aug. 11 to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig.

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Its basically from political gadfly within the Republican caucus to potentially the number two person in the state of Arizona, says Arizona Republican Sen. T.J. Shope. Its a meteoric rise.

Never in a million years would Paul Boyer, a fellow GOP state legislator, have imagined that Finchem would crush a field of qualified candidates and win a nomination to statewide office.

Mark is known as the guy thats probably the dumbest well, theres a long list, but one of the dumbest legislators in the state House, he says. (Finchems retort: Boyer is an utter disgrace.)

But Finchems rise makes sense in light of the broader shift within the Arizona Republican Party. Trumps slate of political insurgents swept the GOP nomination for every state office in which he offered his blessing, from the U.S. Senate down to state Senate races.

After decades of civil war, the Arizona primaries mark a decisive swing in the state GOPs balance of power. The center-right, pro-business wing of the party led by the late Sen. John McCain and Gov. Doug Ducey has been defeated, at least for now. Finchem and other far-right outsiders the original tea party activists and the new Trumpist hard-liners have taken over.

We drove a stake through the heart of the McCain machine, Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake bragged, while making a stabbing motion, at a CPAC event following the primary. We threw together a rag-tag team of nonpolitical people to run the most exciting campaign in the country. And we won.

Lake, a former TV news anchor, fended off more than $20 million in spending against her to narrowly capture the nomination, despite her opponents backing from Ducey, former GOP Gov. Jan Brewer and former Vice President Mike Pence.

We drove a stake through the heart of the McCain machine, Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake bragged at a recent CPAC event.|LM Otero/AP Photo

Blake Masters, a 36-year-old acolyte of billionaire tech entrepreneur and Trump donor Peter Thiel, surged from behind in the U.S. Senate primary after earning Trumps nod. Abraham Hamadeh, a 31-year-old lawyer who has spent fewer days in a courtroom than many petty criminals, was rocketed out of obscurity to win the primary for state attorney general after snagging Trumps endorsement.

None have any political experience. But they have the main qualification that matters to the former president: They repeat the lie that the Arizona election was rigged against him. Every winning Republican candidate said they wouldnt have certified the 2020 election. That means that as Trump gears up for a possible third run for the presidency, Arizona is facing the prospect of a slate of statewide officials who could steal the election for him. (Indeed, another victim of a Trump-backed primary was Rusty Bowers, the soft-spoken leader of the Arizona House who rebuffed Trumps pressure campaign to overturn the states 2020 election results and testified to the January 6 committee.)

For his part, Finchem defeated three other candidates for the secretary of state nomination: Beau Lane, an advertising executive who had backing from the business community and Duceys full-throated endorsement; state Rep. Shawnna Bolick who had sponsored legislation to let lawmakers toss out the results of presidential elections they dont like and had tried to capture the Trump vote; and state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, who has been the architect of every major election integrity bill that has been signed into law for the past decade, but who refused to regurgitate the lie that Arizonas election was stolen from Trump. Finchem beat them all by wide margins.

Its not an overstatement to say Finchem remains a bit of a joke to his soon-to-be old colleagues.

Boyer, who served eight years in the Arizona Legislature alongside Finchem, cackled while recalling Finchems doomed 2020 run for speaker against Bowers. Finchem wrote a seven-page memo outlining his vision for the job, including his top priority: using viral content to take the messaging power back from the media. And he did prove that he knew how to go viral.

The use of mimes [SIC] is an emerging means of harnessing rhetoric and sarcasm with a purpose, Finchem declared with a repeated typo of the word meme, which became a local meme itself. The regular use of mimes to build brand identity and establish solid differentiation will serve us well.

Less than a third of the Republican caucus ultimately backed Finchem to become the speaker, but it cemented his status as the leader of the far right at the state Capitol.

Finchem has always been something of an underdog and outcast at the state Capitol. In his eight years as a lawmaker, he has only once been granted a committee chairmanship; typically, even junior Republican lawmakers get prime posts. He had just one bill signed into law this year fewer than many Democrats who sit in the minority and he hasnt fared much better in past years.

How can he go from that, to the Republican nominee for secretary of state? I mean, its simple. He won the Arizona Apprentice for secretary of state, Boyer says. Abe Hamadeh for AG? Kari Lake for governor? Its very simple. If you can fog up a mirror and win the Arizona Apprentice, youre good.

Abe Hamadeh for AG? Kari Lake for governor? Its very simple. If you can fog up a mirror and win the Arizona Apprentice, youre good.

Paul Boyer, Arizona state legislator

Boyer, meanwhile, chose not to run for reelection after receiving death threats for refusing to go along with his partys election lies. So just two years after his failed run for leadership, Finchem is on top. And those who laughed at his vision have been purged from Arizonas political landscape.

In many ways, Finchem is a man made for the times. Hes a longtime leader of the legislatures far-right Liberty Caucus, and is revered in conservative grassroots circles as one of the few good lawmakers.

He refused to do a phone interview for this article, but he did send a few text messages, saying if hes having a moment in the sun, its because like him, the people are no longer afraid to be bullied by the establishment.

I am but a humble servant who took the time to listen to his constituents and has been vilified for it, he wrote. Perhaps thats why they view me as their champion.

Originally from the Detroit area, Finchem moved to Arizona in 1999 and began a career as a realtor. (He had previously been a cop in Kalamazoo, Mich., where his final evaluation reads poor rating, would not rehire.) He later became vice president of business development for Clean Power Technologies LLC, an Idaho-based company that claimed on its now-defunct website that it can generate and deliver clean energy without wires, anywhere around the world.

Finchem was an early adopter of fringe politics in Arizona. He was touting state sovereignty issues long before phrases like plenary powers and the independent state legislature doctrine entered the mainstream political lexicon. Armed not with a law degree, but a masters in legal studies from the University of Arizonas freedom school, Finchem became the thought leader of the movement to decertify the 2020 election in Arizona.

After losing his head-to-head contest with Bowers for the speakership in late 2020, Finchem held an unauthorized, unofficial hearing with Rudy Giuliani and other members of Trumps legal team to air falsehoods about how the election was rigged. That hearing cemented his status as one of the key ringleaders of Arizonas Stop the Steal movement and helped earn him the Trump endorsement that rocketed him to national stardom on the right.

Just a few weeks later, Finchem was outside the U.S. Capitol at the Jan. 6 riot. Though he maintains he never entered the building, video footage shows he was much closer than he originally claimed. Ali Alexander, the organizer of the rally that helped fuel the deadly mayhem, declared there wouldnt have been a Stop the Steal movement in Arizona without Finchem.

CNN reported this week that Finchem previously shared posts on social media about stockpiling ammunition and touted his membership in the Oath Keepers anti-government extremist group, which is under scrutiny for its role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Finchem is still pushing baseless theories about how the election was rigged, texting a link to a conservative activist project that he claims shows the Chinese Communist Party now has operational control over many elections across the United States because they control the servers where all of the electronic data sits.

What boggles my mind is reporters and journalists are sitting on the story of the century but nobody has the balls to write about it, he wrote in a text.

The 2022 primaries underscored just how tight Trumps grip is over Arizona Republicans, and that his 2020 loss is still fresh on these voters minds as he considers another run for the presidency.

How could it not be? In Arizona, it feels like the 2020 election is still ongoing.

Republicans in this state, perhaps more than any other, have followed Trumps election conspiracies down the rabbit hole.

First there was the Cyber Ninjas audit authorized by the state Senate, which ultimately confirmed through a hand count of ballots that President Joe Biden won, but which offered up a host of other debunkable conspiracies about how maybe he didnt win. Then theres the still-ongoing investigation by the Arizona attorney general about alleged improprieties in the election, which uncovered a handful of record-keeping issues, but no proof of any widespread fraud, including from dead people voting.

Meanwhile, Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward not only continues to spout Trumps fantasies about the election; she broke with the chairs long-standing tradition of neutrality to throw her full weight behind the MAGA candidates in the primary, calling the Trump-opposed candidates RINOs and worse. The sycophantic pro-Trump student group Turning Point USA also is based in Arizona and deeply intertwined with the party infrastructure.

Trump himself has seen Arizona as key to keeping his political future alive. Hes traveled to the state twice since losing the 2020 election. In January of this year, he came to promote his candidates and spin election yarns. And during the first weeks of early voting, he returned with pillow salesman and conspiracy-slinger Mike Lindell, who warmed up the crowd by claiming, once again, that the election was rigged and that the state is poised to do away with defective vote tabulating machines.

But just as important, Arizonas mainstream conservatives have cowered to the lie that the election was stolen from Trump. While some, including Ducey, have attempted to tamp down on the rhetoric, none have forcefully confronted Trumps disinformation.

On the same day as Trumps latest rally for his candidates, Pence and Ducey stumped for their pick in the gubernatorial primary: Karrin Taylor Robson. Robson criticized Lake for saying the primary election was rigged against her before votes had even been cast, but Robson refused to say that the 2020 election was free and fair, saying she wasnt sure if she would have certified Arizonas 2020 election if she were governor.

We have the wrong guy in the White House, she said, while repeatedly refusing to clarify whether Biden was wrongfully elected or simply the wrong guy for the job.

Lane, Finchems business-backed opponent, would say the election wasnt stolen when asked. But he never made it a central point of his campaign in an overt way. Instead, he took to the airwaves with criticism of Finchem for having supported a National Popular Vote bill, saying if Finchem had his way, Hillary Clinton would have been president.

In a state where even the mainstream conservative candidate for the top election official doesnt forcefully articulate a message that the 2020 election was safe, secure and legitimate, it shouldnt be a shock that Republican voters backed a slate of candidates thats likely to be willing to throw out the results of the 2024 election.

Whether Finchem and his fellow Trumpists will find success in November is less clear.

In Arizonas purple political landscape, Democrats and even many Republicans here say GOP primary voters went too far that theyve undermined the partys chances of holding the states top offices in an otherwise great year for Republicans. Perhaps that could break the fever, as Barack Obama once predicted, before the party went even further to the right under Trump.

It may take a drubbing at the polls this year to get Republican voters off the Trump train, says Arizona Republican consultant Barrett Marson. Or maybe theyll just double down.

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Three days after the FBI descended on former President Trumps Mar-a-Lago home, Attorney General Merrick Garland gave a press conference lasting less than four minutes about the raid. As he was speaking, he excoriated anyone who questions the motives and integrity of the FBI. His intent was clear: You are not allowed to criticize the FBI and its obvious double standards. Any criticism of the institution will be viewed as a threat to democracy. In true Orwellian fashion, the corporate media began parroting the same talking points.

The ruling elite is blinded by their groupthink mentality. The raid on a former president was the culmination of two decades of corruption within the big government apparatus where abuses of power have become increasingly brazen. The loss of trust in the agencies is not the result of conspiracy theories, social media, or millions of Americans simply becoming anti-government. It is a direct consequence of their actions.

The American people believed our institutions were operating in good faith and they took a laissez-faire approach for far too long, even as the evidence of an abusive bureaucracy was mounting. Consider the following:

In 2007, programs that were developed to target terrorists quickly morphed into domestic spying programs. The NSA began capturing and monitoring Americans electronic communications and metadata through the PRISM program. Both John Brennan and James Clapper denied the government was monitoring American citizens and openly lied to Congress. They were never charged with perjury, and not a single person who authorized this program was ever held accountable for this direct assault on the Fourth Amendment.

Journalists have also been routinely monitored by federal agencies making a mockery of the First Amendment. Ironically, many within the media now carry water for the institutions and serve as their private PR firms.

In 2012, then-Attorney General Eric Holder refused to provide information to Congress on the governments ill-thought-out Fast and Furious program. He was held in contempt of Congress, and there are indications that he may have committed perjury when he denied knowing about the program. Lucky for him, he never received the Steve Bannon treatment.

In 2013, the IRS admitted to targeting conservative groups. Lois Lerner deemed that these conservative and Tea Party groups were guilty of having the wrong political opinion. For her actions, Lois Lerner refused to answer questions, pleading the fifth, and was found in contempt of Congress by the House of Representatives, but the Justice Department declined to prosecute her on contempt charges. Instead, she was allowed to retire, collect her pension, and never be held accountable.

In 2014, it was revealed that John Brennans CIA was monitoring sitting members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. Neither Brennan nor anyone else involved in the program was ever held accountable.

In 2015, Hillary Clinton was subpoenaed to preserve her home-brewed email server. Following the subpoena, her email management company Platte River Network wiped the server clean, and employees sent an email with the subject line stating, Hillary cover-up operation work ticket archive cleanup.

In 2016, as the FBI was investigating the server, multiple people in the Hillary Clinton orbit were granted immunity. Cheryl Mills, who was a witness in the investigation, was allowed to claim attorney-client privilege. Compare that to the FBI raids on Trumps lawyers where long-standing norms of attorney-client privilege were thrown out the window.

Hillary Clintons top aide told the FBI that she wasnt aware of the private server, yet she had her own email account on it. We also know that then-FBI Director James Comey already had a draft letter prepared to exonerate Clinton even before she was interviewed. Then, shortly before the 2016 election, it was revealed that Clintons emails were found on a laptop shared by Abedin and her husband, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner. Not a single person was ever held accountable for the lies, the deceit, and the illegal server.

As if spying on U.S. senators and turning a blind eye to Clintons malfeasance wasnt bad enough, in 2016, the FBI began its infamous Crossfire Hurricane operation where FBI agents would use a dossier paid for by Hillary Clintons campaign to investigate and surveil the Trump campaign, and later, the Trump presidency. They knew the dossier had little basis in fact but presented it to the FISA court anyway. FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith doctored another piece of evidence and presented it to the FISA court. Throughout the investigation, FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page would routinely send each other text messages expressing their disdain for Trump and his supporters.

The investigation didnt end when President Trump won the election. In 2017, FBI Director James Comey leaked sensitive information to the press in order to force then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a special counsel. Over the next few years, the country would be torn apart, and in the end, the special counsel never found any evidence of Russian collusion.

What about the U.S. Postal Services iCOP program, where postal inspectors were monitoring peoples social media accounts and forwarding posts to the Department of Homeland Security? Again, no accountability.

Federal courts have also admonished the FBI on several occasions for illegally accessing the NSAs repository for information on Americans.

Multiple intelligence and federal law enforcement agencies continue to monitor and collect the data of American citizens, including the FBI, the CIA, and ICE. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has amassed millions of records on legal firearm owners even though a gun database is strictly prohibited by Congress.

What about how the Secret Service reportedly tried to cover up Hunter Bidens firearm incident or how the FBI was used to track down Ashley Bidens alleged diary? What about all the former senior-level intelligence heads stating that Hunters laptop was Russian disinformation in order to manipulate an election? Why havent we heard of any investigations into the current president given that he is directly implicated in the Biden family pay-to-play scheme?

Then you have the Department of Education, the National School Boards Association, and the Department of Justice colluding to target parents and label them as domestic terrorists.

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, we witnessed repeated lies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health institutions, ranging in topic from vaccines to masking to lockdowns. Even worse, Dr. Anthony Faucis emails show his ruthless efforts to target any scientists or medical professionals who disagreed with him in an attempt to destroy their credibility.

The evidence of rampant abuse within the bureaucracy is widespread and illustrates that we should not blindly and obediently trust these institutions. Many of our officials act as if we exist to serve them as opposed to them serving us. They justify their abuses with a sense of righteousness as long as they qualify their wrongdoing with the sentiment of preserving democracy. In their delusional minds, they believe they are guardians of democracy.

Thomas Jefferson once warned, The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us.

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Who else finds the citys response to its illegal-migrant influx utterly surreal?

Over in The Bronx, hundreds of migrants lined up Sunday to sign up for health coverage and collect food, free phones and school supplies.

Friday at Department of Education headquarters, Chancellor David Banks detailed plans to get a thousand-plus migrant kids enrolled in public schools before classes start Sept. 8 amid advocate complaints that the DOE hasnt been moving fast enough.

Meanwhile, Department of Social Serviceschief Gary Jenkins is embroiled in accusations that he tried to cover up the scandal of some migrants having to stay overnight at an intake center rather than immediately being gotten to shelters. Oh, and the beleaguered hotel industry is jumping to offer new shelter space at a price, of course.

All this amid Mayor Eric Adams ongoing war of words with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, complaining about the relative handful of migrants Abbotts busing north to highlight how overwhelmed his towns are by the thousands arriving daily.

Yet Adams was silent for months about the migrants sent here by the Biden administration which is responsible for literally waving in the entire vast wave, and for distributing countless illegal border-crossers across the nation, including via secretive middle-of-the-night flights.

Its beyond bizarre that the citys entire power structure (most certainly including those all-too-powerful advocates) treats this insanity like it was some new form of weather, a challenge that erupted out of the blue through no ones fault except Abbotts, of course.

Set aside the refusal to even mention the presidents central role, and the fact that hes executing what somehow has become Democrats dogmatic open-borders policy (even if they refuse to put it that way, all joining in the just the weather denial).

Ignore, too, that this crisis should have some New York leaders finally questioning the citys shelter for all comers guarantees, and its extremist (since Mayor Bill de Blasio redefined it) sanctuary city policy.

Why does everyone insist on ignoring the migrants own agency here? These people chose to come chose to travel thousands of miles to illegally enter another country, usually crossing other countries where they could have stayed and then to come to New York City.

Heck, those who arrive send word back home (and to those already en route) about how to game the system, on top of advice from the federally funded advocate nonprofits urging them to make the trip.

Yes, many of them rush to find some way to be self-sufficient. And theyre all seeking a better life, and responding to the come on in signals so many Americans send.

But all of this is a result of human choices, not of mysterious forces requiring the rest of us to simply adjust. Routinely, universally pretending otherwise may be politically convenient, but it increasingly enrages everyone in the reality-based community.

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The insane topsy-turvy response to NYCs migrant crisis - New York Post

Liz Truss has been clear about her key selling point throughout her leadership campaign. At its launch she boasted: I can lead, I can make tough decisions and get things done.

And her whole campaign has amounted to variations upon that theme I do what I say I will do, Im somebody who gets things done in TV debates, hustings with members and personal appearances.

So Liz Truss not the slickest communicator but gets things done: thats the offer which Conservative members are buying into in droves. Of course, Boris Johnson was once the getting things done go-to guy. Or at least the Get Brexit Done candidate.

And that was the problem. Once Brexit got done and the obsessively focused Dominic Cummings left his side, Johnson proved fairly useless at the implementation side of things. He never lost his columnists facility for story-telling, but the dog-ate-my-homework excuses saw a chill descend towards him from many of his natural supporters.

On no issue was this ultimately fatal loss of faith felt so keenly as on the shocking surrender of control over the United Kingdoms borders.

Just a month into his premiership, Johnson spoke out about a then trickle of inflatable dinghies illegally unloading human cargo on the Kent coast after crossing the English Channel from France. We will send you back, declared the new prime minister directly to camera in August 2019.

In 2019 there were in total 1,843 illegal arrivals via this new method, almost all of whom went on to lodge asylum claims. The next year there were 8,466 such arrivals and almost nobody got sent back anywhere. Far from the Johnson administration implementing an effective deterrent regime as promised, successful arrivals began to put out TikTok videos about how easy this border-busting was proving to be, much to the impotent fury of Home Secretary Priti Patel.

In 2021 there were 28,526 arrivals by dinghy recorded. At the tail end of last week the number so far for 2022 surged past 20,000, almost twice the number who had arrived by the same point last year. It can now confidently be asserted that the government will do even worse this year than last, probably considerably so.

Everything Ms Patel has promised or tried on Mr Johnsons behalf has failed; paying France to stop the dinghies setting out has produced scant results, France has also refused to take back people picked up mid-Channel, there have been no pushbacks at sea, the Ministry of Defence being placed in charge of operations has only resulted in an improved water taxi service to whisk migrants to Dover and that experiment will shortly come to an end. Some 30,000 hotel rooms at a cost of 5 million a day have been requisitioned to accommodate the arrivals, the vast majority of whom are young men.

And the Rwanda removals agreement, that great hope of springtime, has come to nought as well, tied up in knots by human rights lawyers. With immigration in general surging contrary to 2019 Conservative manifesto promises and the government leaning on local authorities to divert scarce social housing away from British families and towards the huge numbers of Afghans and Ukrainians it has invited to come, nobody should believe liberal commentators who claim that the public are relaxed about all this.

In fact there is a feeling that the basic social contract between the government and the citizenry is breaking down given the ease with which foreign nationals can circumvent UK borders. Among2016 Leave voters and 2019 Conservative voters, immigration and asylum is rated as the second most important issue, behind the economic crisis.

The Tory leadership candidates understand that among party members its salience is just as high, which is why both Truss and Rishi Sunak have pledged to drive through the Rwanda policy. Truss has promised to seek similar agreements with other countries too.

So if Ms Trusss emerging political brand is to hold together rather than fall apart she will swiftly need to demonstrate progress on this front rather than just raging impotently, Johnson-style.

She says she does not rule out the UK withdrawing from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights, but first wishes to try a less drastic remedy passing a British Bill of Rights to bolster the jurisdiction of UK courts. Suella Braverman, the Attorney General, was clear in her own leadership campaign that this alone is unlikely to prove effective and so did advocate withdrawal from the ECHR.

Putting Braverman in charge of the governments response on this issue either as Home Secretary or Justice Secretary would send a useful signal to the Conservative-leaning voters for whom it is a major priority.

But Ms Truss will also need to prepare for the Bill of Rights approach to fail, not least because our own judiciary is quite capable of expanding de facto rights to asylum seekers and thwarting removals but also because it wont stop the ECHR interfering.

She must do enough between now and the next election to reassure Tory-leaning voters that she will do whatever it takes to stop the abuse of the asylum system. That may mean setting up a vast new asylum processing centre on the British overseas territory of Ascension Island, whether or not the Americans who share our military bases there object. It may mean routine detention of every asylum-seeker while claims are processed.

It will certainly mean preparing a radical set of policies for the next manifesto, including walking away from the ECHR and disavowing a swathe of other unsustainable international agreements.

Such an approach will cause an uproar among the liberal establishment and left-of-centre opposition parties. That could prove politically useful should Ms Truss hold her nerve, forcing an issue Labour is deeply uncomfortable talking about to the top of the broadcast media agenda. But her prime challenge will be to convince people that, unlike the teller of tall stories who preceded her, she really means it.

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