New figures released by the Home Office confirm that 326 migrants arrived in small boats on UK shores yesterday. That takes the total for the days of March so far to a whopping 1,168. Spring has sprung…
The 592 migrants who turned up on Sunday represent the highest number for a March day on record. There has been a circa 20% increase in crossings this year compared to the last. After scrapping the Rwanda deterrent and insisting no more money will go to the African nation for it Labour is funding new anti-crossing adverts in Kurdistan to be displayed on social media, apps and news websites. They say things like “people disappeared into the sea” during crossing…
Downing Street continues to insist “there are no quick fixes” to small boats. Still no date on when crossings will come down…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”