and leaving, hit a record high in 2022. we are the only party with a credible plan to professionally manage migration so that it supports the british economy without putting undue pressure on local communities. the tories have broken so many promises to bring down migration, why on earth should voters believe you now? so we have seen a 10% fall in illegal migration because of the actions that i ve taken, with the full support of the prime minister, since becoming home secretary. labour s refraining from diving into the numbers game, promising to bring immigration down, but also without saying by how much. on immigration, we have to tackle the central issue which is that we need a skills strategy in this country so we don t have to have so many people arriving on work visas. is that a guarantee that you will cut net migration every year? net migration is far too high. this government has lost control. politicians know many voters
and that s after previously saying the lockdowns weren t his fault. so what exactly did he get right? that the media will believe anything if it comes from a toadstool in a lab coat? kudos to chairman brad for holding the tiny hooves to the fire and refraining from throwing him out a window. let s start with the social distancing and six-foot rules. it was so specific. it had to be the perfectly calibrated space to keep the virus from spreading, didn t it? why 6 feet? why not 5 or 7? nobody seemed to know. about she said we had to do it so everybody did it. it was like an adult version of simon says that ends up killing everyone but simon. it wasn t a suggestion, either. or even this very show had to do it. other talkshows followed suit. to this day jimmy kimmel s show maintains a healthy distance from comedy.
conditions, some of them are pretty standard and it is standard to include things like refraining from intimidating witnesses in conditions of release, what is really remarkable here is as caitlin laid out, the specificity of what is included here in terms of what trump cannot do. so he cannot directly or indirectly intimidate witnesses through social media posts. that certainly i think is a direct reaction to the some of the inflammatory rhetoric that trump has been using on his social media posts posin terms what he has been saying about fani willis and about grand jurors. so i think that that is a direct reaction to this and it seems that it will be very difficult for trump if the past is telling, it will be very difficult for him to abide by these conditions. so we will see what happens in the future with this.
they re trying to thread this needle where you can criticize trump in a way that also makes his die-hard supporters willing to support you in the future. so far no candidate has figured that out in 2016 or in 2024. so philip, is that how you see it too, that will hurd would bring up some valid concerns with republican voters. look at what s taking place with the indictments, the evidence that the special counsel has collected. yet trump s opponents are also trying to kind of strike a balance. they want to appeal to trump supporters as best they can with refraining from saying anything about him and his legal troubles, yet at the same time they are clearly his opponent. they all want the nomination. i think alex s analysis is