Labour is reopening asylum hotels at a staggering cost of £4 million a day. Just a year ago, the Conservatives shut down 150 of these hotels to deter illegal entry. It’s yet another U-turn from Labour. Their manifesto promised to “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”. Now it’s ‘reopen asylum hotels, costing the taxpayer billions of pounds’…

Yvette Cooper’s decision to overturn the law preventing illegal migrants from claiming asylum has sent asylum seeker numbers skyrocketing, so it’s no surprise Labour has opted to reopen hotels to house them. With 27,225 migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats so far—a 5% increase from the same time last year—many of these newcomers will soon find themselves in the very hotels Labour has revived. It’s an open-door policy with the bill landing on the taxpayer. No wonder Channel migrants love Labour…

Britain is topping the charts yet again, though not for the right reasons. A latest study from  Oxford University academics reveals that the UK now has more illegal migrants than any other European country, with up to 745,000 people living within our borders without permission. This includes those who’ve overstayed their visas, are failed asylum seekers and who’ve crossed the Channel. That’s more than one in every hundred people living here illegally…

That’s more than double the 300,000 thought to be in France and even higher than Germany’s 700,000. Meanwhile, a staggering 973 people crossed the Channel on Sunday – the highest daily figure this year. That brings the total so far in 2024 to 26,612, surpassing the figure on the same date last year and inching closer to 2022’s 33,611. Labour’s “solutions” for cutting back what they call “irregular immigration” clearly aren’t cutting it. Sunak was right when he warned migrants would be queuing up in Calais once Labour got in…

Labour are continuing to smash new records. Over 10,000 illegal migrants have now crossed the English Channel since they took the keys to Downing Street, bringing the total this year to 23,598. Over 100 more in Starmer’s first 75 days than Boris’ first year in government…

Meanwhile, Home Secretary Cooper still can’t detail a proper plan, refusing to say when the numbers will come down. Empty slogans like “smashing the gangs” clearly aren’t working. Labour’s achievements so far: popularity plummeting in record time, releasing record numbers of criminals from prison early, and now hitting the 10,000 Channel crossings mark…

After another weekend of record-high Channel boat crossings, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was asked (not by her husband this time) on BBC Breakfast when Labour would bring down the number of illegal (or as Labour calls it, “irregular”) Channel migrant crossings. She couldn’t answer the question…

Asked three times when boat crossings would fall and whether she had a target date, Cooper dodged the question, repeating the empty line: “We need to make progress as fast as possible because no one should be making these dangerous boat crossings.” Meanwhile, Starmer hinted yesterday at sending asylum seekers to a third country, similar to the Rwanda scheme, as he prepares to learn from Italian Prime Minister Meloni’s “strong ideas” today. As expected, the slogan “smashing the gangs” is not deterrent enough…

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…

Over 18,000 migrants have crossed on small boats this year. Crossings are rising as they hit record levels…

According to Home Office figures 703 migrants crossed into UK waters on 11 boats yesterday. That’s the highest number of arrivals so far under the Labour government…

Starmer’s spokesman just says “work is ongoing” on the “priority” of “smashing the gangs” and declined to give any timings on when the pledge would be fulfilled. Keeping in line with pre-election ambiguity…

Labour is naturally also claiming today that scrapping the Rwanda deterrent has had no effect on the number of crossings. Tick, tock…