New Home Office immigration data shows over 41,000 small boat migrants crossed the channel in 2025, up 13% on the previous year. Another 5,000 came via other illegal routes. There were 190,000 ‘grants of leave on humanitarian routes’, 2.5 times higher than 2024…
Meanwhile, 101,000 people claimed asylum last year, with the UK receiving the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the EU, after Germany, France, Spain and Italy. Taxpayers forked out £175 million to stop 22,476 crossing attempts in 2025. That’s £8,000 per migrant…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”