Gawain Towler, former director of communications for UKIP, has condemned Labour's videos promoting immigration raids, likening them to Theresa May’s controversial 'Go home or face arrest' vans. He criticized the approach as mean and unpleasant, arguing that while illegal migrants, especially those with criminal records, should be expelled, the tone and intention behind the videos misinterprets the electorate's sentiments. Towler suggests that the government’s strategy fails to resonate with the public's actual views on immigration.
There's something mean and unpleasant and nasty about the way it's been done, Mr. Towler said of the government's strategy in a Times Radio interview. We want illegal migrants to leave... particularly those who've committed crimes... But the tone aspect, I think they're trying to appeal to an electorate they think we are rather than understanding who we are.
Ms. May has since said the vans were wrong.
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