Things are only getting worse for Starmer as channel migrant crossings continue to surge. Home Office figures reveal yesterday was the second straight day of over 500 illegal migrants detected, with 614 yesterday and 526 on Tuesday. That’s now 20,433 this year so far, with 3,530 in August alone, surpassing the tally this time last year…

While criminal gang leaders crammed an average 66 people on each boat, Tony Smith, former head of UK Border Force, warned this will only continue in the future unless migrants are turned away at the border. Meanwhile, as Farage noted, Starmer “hasn’t said a word” on the crisis, opting to target smoking, free speech and letting out prisoners after serving 20% of their sentence instead. “Smashing the gangs” won’t be deterrent enough…

In a victory against the grim spectre of UK censorship, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a Christian volunteer who faced two unjust arrests for silently praying outside an abortion clinic, has received a £13,000 settlement from West Midlands Police. This came after issuing two claims against the arrests with support from ADF UK. Though she’s been vindicated for her ‘thoughtcrime’, Labour’s push against free speech to protect the snowflakes is only beginning…

Ministers are now reviewing the initial guidance designed to protect “silent prayer”, having already axed the Free Speech Act designed to support debate in universities. Meanwhile, Yvette Cooper’s proposed Misogyny Extremism Law raises fears of further censorship and threats to free speech. A reminder that violence and misogyny against women are already criminal offences, and definitions of misogyny can vary widely. Labour should focus on addressing actual crimes rather than filling prisons with individuals convicted of so-called hate crimes…

Numbers of migrants applying for British visas, along with their families, have plummeted by over a third compared to last year, all thanks to the Tories cracking down on social care workers and students bringing relations over. In July last year, 143,000 hopefuls applied to live in the UK as skilled workers, but this July, that number has nosedived to 93,000. Not being able to bring the rest of  family along to the UK has put many off from even bothering to apply. Starmer should be grateful to the Tories for this one…

The head of the Migration Advisory Committee has forecasted a drop in net migration by 200,000 this year due to these measures. Yet, Yvette Cooper has already taken the axe to the Tory proposal to hike the income threshold for bringing a foreign partner to the UK from £18,600 to £29,000—a policy that could have curbed the numbers even more so. ‘The plan was working’…

Home Office just announced that Labour will shut down Bibby Stockholm in January, along with two other migrant accommodations. The bases held asylum seekers waiting to be processed to reduce cost of putting them up in (often) 4-star hotels instead. Labour’s theory behind the move is that they won’t be needed anymore as they’ll clear backlog of asylum claims. So far nothing has changed, and the government hasn’t said where these asylum seekers will go…

Seven migrants were meant to be moved to the Bibby Stockholm barge this morning from a hotel in Peckham. Students from the woke School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) weren’t having it. Cue Gen Z protest tools to stop the coach: electric scooters and knives…

James Cleverly has tweeted his anger:

“Housing migrants in hotels costs the British taxpayer millions of pounds every day. We will not allow this small group of students, posing for social media, to deter us from doing what is right for the British public.“

Sky News is providing fawning coverage from the ground in Peckham, insisting “they don’t look like they have their phones out, they are peaceful.” Black Lives Matter UK and Just Stop Oil are now calling for reinforcements to help the students as the police gets involved. The Home Office has previously folded in the face of protests when trying to move migrants to the barge. Does SOAS govern Britain now…

The government has stepped up the pace to get its Rwanda scheme off the ground – and further details are emerging about how the process will actually work. In an updated ‘equality impact assessment’ published on GOV.UK yesterday, the Home Office admits that MPs may be able to block individual deportations:

“It is a long-standing parliamentary convention that MPs’ representations suspend removal until a case has been considered and a response issued to the MP. In practice, representations are responded to swiftly and do not usually delay removal. Given the novel nature of the SORB, we may expect future MEDP cases to attract significant attention from MPs, and responders may be overwhelmed by cases, causing a delay or removal to be cancelled pending a response. The process for responding to MPs’ representations will continue as usual in Op Vector cases, and responders have put in place a process to ensure responses are issues promptly.”

In other words, lefty MPs could kick up such a fuss in the media and gum up the Home Office process that the removals are delayed. Guido wonders whether now would be a good time for parties – such as Labour – to instruct their MPs not to interfere…