The already-small number of charges issues for immigration offences dropped by a tenth in the year after Labour took power. Smash the gangs…
Immigration offences are defined by the Home Office as any of the following:
Guido’s FOI Unit has discovered that from July 2023 to June 2024 – the last year of Tory government – 667 individuals were charged for immigration offences. After Labour was elected, from July 2024 to June 2025 that figure dropped to 603. A 9.6% reduction…
The National Crime Agency is currently celebrating a rise in arrests it has made in the year to April 2026: “59 people were convicted of organised immigration crime (OIC) offences in UK courts as a result of NCA investigations.” Splash in the pan…
In April the government inked a new £662 million deal with the French to slow down small boat crossings. Almost a thousand migrants crossed the Channel over the bank holiday weekend. Out of control…
Downing Street has insisted the government is “making progress” on tackling illegal migration, even as the number of small boat migrants is set to cross a whopping 200,000 since records began eight years ago. The Number 10 spokesman said at the Lobby briefing of political hacks this afternoon:
“The previous government left our borders in chaos and we are still living with the consequences. We must do whatever it takes to restore order to our borders. The statistics show that we are making progress. Since coming into office this government has deported nearly 60,000 people, with 2025 marking the highest rate of returns in nearly a decade. Deportations of foreign criminals are up more than 30%… Of course, we must go further…”
The spokesman then pointed to the supposed merits of the ‘one in, one out’ deal with France, claiming 600 migrants have been returned under the policy. As a hack pointed out in the room, that isn’t a net figure. The net figure is… around zero. To which the spokesman conceded “it’s a pilot scheme”…
Reform told the Express last night that an inquiry into inward migration during the last government would seek to establish whether policies enacted by Boris and Priti Patel “amounted gross negligence rising to the level of criminal conduct.” Should be a hoot…
The party has launched a website on the matter:
“The ‘Boriswave’ is the unprecedented surge in mass immigration perpetrated by the Conservative Party between 2021 and 2024.
The long term cost of the Boriswave will hit the British taxpayer with a £622 billion bill in lifetime costs.
That is £20,000 per household.
Reform UK will abolish indefinite leave to remain. We will terminate welfare payments to foreign nationals. We will put the national interest first and we will leave the ECHR.”
Yusuf on the attack…
Downing Street is suddenly very coy about supporting the Home Office’s proposed changes to indefinite leave to remain. Speaking at the post-PMQs Lobby huddle of political hacks, Number 10’s political spokesman refused to back Mahmood’s plan to double the time it takes to qualify for permanent residence:
“We’re a proud, tolerant, generous country. Labour has always been the party that celebrates the contribution migrant communities have made to our national story. In the four years before the election we saw record levels of immigration. In the manifesto we promised to deliver a fair and properly managed immigration system. We are considering responses to the Home Office consultation, and will respond in line with our principles and values.”
Just last night Angela Rayner declared the plans “un-British“. No10 also said the PM “would like to see her return to the Cabinet” at some point. Looks like she’s basically the Home Secretary already…
An extraordinary moment on GB News as small boat migrants arrive in Ramsgate while the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is still on her feet announcing reforms to legal and illegal migration. You couldn’t make it up…
UPDATE: 65 illegal immigrants just disembarked BF Hurricane according to GB News‘ Mark White.
Shabana Mahmood is up shortly at the left-wing IPPR think tank to announce her reforms to the migration system aimed at legal and illegal migration. Watch live here shortly…
A Labour rebellion is gathering steam against the efforts, which include making refugee status temporary and harsh crackdowns on countries deemed to be ‘exploiting’ the asylum system. Backbench Labour MP Tony Vaughan fired off a letter signed by 100 MPs and says: “We can change our immigration system for the better without forgetting who we are as a Labour Party. You don’t win back public confidence in the asylum system by threatening to forcibly remove refugees who have lived here lawfully for 15 or 20 years. That just breeds insecurity and fractured communities.” Typical language…
The rest:
Previous attempts to organise against Mahmood haven’t worked as effectively as the PLP’s rebellions against No10. A battle is coming…
Badenoch said at her speech on Monday morning: “We are absolutely ready to fight a general election. We saw the results in Aberdeen South: 50% of the vote. Because we can unite the country… It’s about uniting the country, for God’s sake, behind a centre-right agenda.”