The Trump-Starmer press conference has just wrapped up. The Sun’s Jack Elsom asked the President about cracking down on illegal immigration…
“I think it’s very important, and we speak about it. I think your situation is very similar. You know, you have people coming in, and I told the Prime Minister I would stop it. It doesn’t matter if you call out the military, it doesn’t matter what means you use, but… it destroys countries from within. We’re actually now removing a lot of the people that came into our country. It’s a very hard chore. We were given a very, very bad hand. Millions of people came in from prisons and mental institutions. We have to remove them, and we are removing them. We have no choice, and I feel very strongly about it…”
Starmer then celebrated the takeoff of the first deportation flight to Paris earlier today. Which contained one illegal immigrant…
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.”