Nigel Farage has slammed Labour’s crackdown on migration as “feeble” – as he pointed to 600,000 illegal migrants living in London alone.
Yesterday, Starmer’s party bragged about removing 19,000 illegal migrants by releasing pictures of migrants’ deportations.
The video, which is about two-and-a-half minutes long, shows multiple foreign nationals, some in restraints, being led onto a specially chartered aircraft.
It is believed that the Home Office carried out 5,074 enforced returned between July 5 last year and the end of January.
As a result, since the General Election last year, Home Office has claimed that a total of 18,987 unsuccessful asylum seekers, foreign criminals and illegal migrants have been removed from Britain and sent back to their home nation – the highest rate of returns in the UK since 2018.
Officials confirmed that 2,925 foreign national offenders have been deported.
“With an estimated 600,000 illegals in London alone, these numbers are feeble,” he told the Daily Mail.
Research led by think tanks, campaign groups and universities, however, indicate that there are approximately 600,000 to 1.2million illegal migrants in Britain.
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Labour MP proposes axing safeguarding provision in assisted dying bill
The Labour MP responsible for spearheading the assisted dying bill has sought to scrap a key safeguard of the controversial policy.
Kim Leadbeater proposed the removal of the requirement to gain a High Court’s approval of each assisted death after ex-judges suggested that such a provision might overwhelm the courts.
Instead, the MP suggested that each case must be seen by a three-person panel, made up of a social worker and psychiatrist, accompanied by a senior lawyer or former High Court judge.
Starmer set to meet Trump as soon as NEXT WEEK in first summit since President enters Oval Office
The Prime Minister is due to visit Donald Trump in Washington DC
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The Prime Minister is due to visit Donald Trump in Washington DC before the end of February – marking their first engagement since the President entered the White House.
It is possible the meeting could take place as soon as next week while Downing Street remains alert for Trump’s availability.
The summit of the two world leaders could prove detrimental to the “special relationship” between Britain and America as Donald Trump continues on his tariff tirade across the globe.
Donald Trump will not target UK in tariff trade war, Mandelson says
Donald Trump will not take aim at Britain over tariffs, the British ambassador to the US has said.
Peter Mandelson – whose job started yesterday – promised to ensure the UK did not “become collateral damage” in the President’s international trade war.
Although he admitted that he was “concerned” about potential tariffs on Britain, he said: “We actually have a very balanced trade relationship between Britain and the US. I don’t believe that his tariffs are actually directly targeted at us.
“That shouldn’t make us complacent, and I’m not complacent. I’m going to focus, in a laser-like way, on the dialogue between us to make sure that we do not become collateral damage in the US,” he told the BBC.
“But in the meantime, I don’t think we should be overreacting.”