QUOTE OF THE DAY

RICHARD TICE, leader of the Reform Party (which yesterday held its annual conference a mile from the Tories in Birmingham), has zero tolerance for illegal immigration. ‘We should leave the european court of human Rights,’ says Tice. ‘We must pick migrants out of boats and take them back to France. We can do this legally under the international convention for the Safety of Life at Sea laws.’ Ministers take note: at least someone is proposing radical solutions.