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  "path": "/opinion/mike-tapp-labour-chaos-constitutional-crisis-jacob-rees-mogg",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-25T20:07:45.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nWell, they say treason doth never prosper for when it doth none dare call it treason.\n\nAnd this all seemed to be going swimmingly for the Labour Party.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThey assassinated a prime minister, they had a new prime minister in waiting, and they could try and pretend that it was a nest of singing birds, that everyone was happy with, as they all ran round Mr. Burnham, sucked up to him, said how much they were supporting him, how marvellous they'd always thought he was, until you get down to policy.\n\nAnd Mike Tapp, a minister in the Home Office, has come up with an immigration policy that is not the Government.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nNow, collective responsibility is the fundamental constitutional basis of Cabinet Government. They have to agree one policy.\n\nEvery minister speaks for the Government. The Government speaks with one voice that has been fundamental to our Constitution since at least the 1830s.\n\nMike Tapp thinks otherwise, but Shabana Mahmood isn't best pleased and Shabana Mahmood wants him sacked and says he's broken the ministerial code.\n\nNow the ministerial code is the Prime Minister's code of conduct for ministers, it's not an official state document.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIt's not a constitutional document, it's just what the Prime Minister wants to happen, and he is the interpreter of it, the guardian of it, and he's saying he doesn't want fire Mr Tapp.\n\nSo you're now beginning to see those real tensions come out, and they come down to policy.\n\nShabana Mahmood wants a tough immigration policy.\n\nShe wants to clamp down on people, she wants to change the terms and conditions of people being in this country.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nMike Tapp has come up with a more left-wing solution. He doesn't want to be as tough minded. He's not as worried about it.\n\nThis expresses the view of a lot of people in the Labour Party who, frankly, want open borders.\n\nAnd the Prime Minister, well, he's never been able to do anything, even when he had authority, and now he's sitting in Downing Street dithering a little bit longer.\n\nBut what does Mr. Burnham think? And that unfortunately isn't very clear, because he's hinted possibly everything to everybody over the course of his political career.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThough a few months ago he did back Angela Rayner when she said that Shabana Mahmood's reforms weren't British.\n\nSo chaos, confusion, dither and a constitutional mini crisis all brewing up at once. Politics remains interesting as ever.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Labour has chaos, confusion, dither and a constitutional mini crisis all brewing up at once, says Jacob Rees-Mogg"
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