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Rory Stewart: send small boat migrants back to France

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15.09.2026

Who is tougher on immigration: Boris Johnson or Rory Stewart? It seems to be the former Tory MP turned podcaster (that’s Stewart, not Johnson – who only has a column) who is trying to make that claim.

Speaking to Michael Gove on The Spectator’s Quite Right podcast, Stewart said that Johnson went ‘entirely mad’ on legal migration as prime minister. The centrist took aim at Johnson for letting close to a million people into the country in a single year through legal routes. ‘I don’t understand what was happening there. Why he, and I........

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