agree with this and would add that the privatisation of social housing needs to be ended by abolishing the right to buy before real investment into it can begin

it might have done its job anyway, incoming labour gov will be shit up about reform let alone abolition of right to buy even if any of them ever might have considered it in the first place

One effect of the harebrained Rwanda policy was to drastically reduce the price of getting on the boats, so this announcement may reduce crossings as fewer will be able to afford it

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/06/channel-smugglers-drop-prices-and-cram-more-people-on-to-boats