Tough talk will get the Home Secretary nowhere, and under-funding the system for processing applications is deeply counter-productive.
The best solution to the small boats is to expand safe, legal pathways to Britain for asylum seekers.
We should take pride in seven decades of refugee protection, and it is a principle we must uphold in the future too.
It is harder for liberal critics to impute racism, or undue severity, to a Home Secretary who herself belongs to an ethnic minority.
Tough talk will get the Home Secretary nowhere, and under-funding the system for processing applications is deeply counter-productive.