Maya Goodfellow

Prime Min­is­ter Boris John­son’s pro­pos­al to send asy­lum seek­ers to Rwan­da should not sur­prise any­one.

And if the politi­cians lead­ing us con­tin­ue to deny this, the con­se­quences could be dire – both for the par­ty and the UK.

The wide­spread nor­mal­i­sa­tion of the far-right is far more wor­ry­ing than one man’s ef­forts to keep him­self rel­e­vant.

Both the Gren­fell fire and the Fins­bury Park at­tack are the re­sult of the UK gov­ern­ment’s vil­i­fi­ca­tion of the ‘oth­er’.

A Con­ser­v­a­tive vic­to­ry on June 8 would bring more pover­ty, in­equal­i­ty, in­dif­fer­ence to cli­mate change and dead fox­es.

To avoid nor­mal­is­ing xeno­pho­bia jour­nal­ists should crit­i­cal­ly analyse nar­ra­tives, in­stead of sim­ply re­it­er­at­ing them.