A whopping £10.6 billion in Universal Credit has been given to households with at least one non-working migrant between January 2024 and June 2025, according to research by the Centre for Migration Control. Across the same time span, a total of £15.1 billion was paid out to households where at least one resident was a foreign national…
Figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions show there were 771,000 unemployed migrants receiving Universal Credit as of January 2026. That’s a 55% jump since April 2022. As the CMC points out, £6.7 billion a year works out at £251 from every household in Britain just to support households with an unemployed migrant. Or hire 158,611 new Metropolitan Police officers…
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.”