‘Stop the Boats Week’ was an attempt to dominate the news cycle with the UK government’s determination to tackle those arriving on England’s south coast in small boats.
If there was a plan, things didn’t go to it.
While the policy of sending such unwelcome new arrivals to Rwanda faces legal obstacles, attempts to put them on a barge in Dorset met bacterial ones.
The Bibby Stockholm floatel, moored at a Dorset quay, was found to carry the risk of legionella, and the small numbers who had been embarked were hastily disembarked.
All that and government disarray over the idea of sending migrants to Ascension Island in the south Atlantic, and no agreement either on the idea that withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights would be a clever way of solving the problem.