James Cleverly
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We’ve fact checked James Cleverly four times
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Does the government’s Rwanda policy only impact ‘failed asylum seekers’?
Across Europe, illegal migration is increasing and governments are following our lead: Italy, Germany and Austria are all exploring models similar to our partnership with Rwanda.
James Cleverly, 15 November 2023
What’s a free port, and does the EU have them?
use that opportunity of Brexit to do the kind of things that we’ve been precluded from doing for decades, including free ports
James Cleverly, 2 August 2019
Was William Wilberforce a Tory?
186 years ago today the Houses of Parliament passed the Abolition of Slavery Act, that was the culmination of a 46 year campaign by a Tory MP from Yorkshire called William Wilberforce
James Cleverly, 1 August 2019
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