Australia stopped the boats, why is promising to do the same a risk for Rishi Sunak?

Australia's solutions won't work for Europe, so why campaign on the same slogan?

This piece was first published on Politics Home.

It wasn’t exactly subtle. But that was the point. “STOP THE BOATS” screamed Rishi Sunak’s latest lectern slogan in red and white capital letters when he defended his Rwanda deportation legislation late last year.

The three-word slogan is familiar to many. 

In 2013, the then Liberal Australian opposition lead…