When facts get in its way, this government resorts to fiction

As James Cleverly adopts an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ approach to defending the unlawful and unworkable Rwanda plan, the Conservatives have gone through the looking glass... again, says Sean O’Grady

The new home secretary, James Cleverly (Getty)

And now we can join the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, where Alice is interviewing the new home secretary, the Right Honourable Humpty Dumpty MP. They’re discussing the rationale for a proposed new law, which states that there are now only 364 days in a year, and Dumpty is in the middle of an answer. Sort of...

“As I was saying, that seems to be done right – though I haven’t time to look it over thoroughly just now – and that shows that there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents –

“Certainly,” said Alice.