Farage gained’t be greeting this as excellent news of the gospel – nor will govt ministers
When Tony Blair’s spin physician Alastair Campbell instructed journalists that “We don’t do God”, many took it as a press release of ideology.
In reality it was the warning of a canny operator who is aware of that probably the most harmful opponent in politics is a non secular chief licensed to problem your very morality.
Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, presently the efficient head of the worldwide Anglican communion, couldn’t have been clearer in his denunciation of what he calls the Reform social gathering’s “isolationist, short term, kneejerk ‘send them home’” strategy to asylum and immigration.
I sense that having dominated himself out of the race for subsequent Archbishop of Canterbury, Reverend Cottrell feels free to evangelise a liberal doctrine.
Unusually, in our interview he pinpoints a political chief as, in impact, failing to display Christian charity.
However authorities ministers may also be feeling nervous.
Battered for permitting document numbers of cross- Channel migrants, and going through authorized battles on asylum motels that will go all the best way to the Supreme Courtroom, Labour has tried to go off the Reform problem with harder language on border management.
The very last thing the prime minister wants proper now could be to make an enemy of the Almighty – or no less than of his representatives on Earth.
