More than 50,000 small boat migrants have crossed the Channel since Keir Starmer took office last July, after around 430 made the trip yesterday alone. The barrier smashed in just 401 days – a new record…
For context, Rishi Sunak took 603 days to hit the same milestone while Boris Johnson took 1,066 days. Meanwhile, small boat crossings are up 48% in the first half of this year compared to last. As Guido noted yesterday, Starmer’s vaunted “deport now, appeal later” scheme covers just 1.6% of arrivals and a handful of Foreign National Offenders while his “one in, one out” deal with France returns a measly 50 migrants a week. Smashing records here not gangs…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”