‘Flip flop’ Starmer is a danger to Britain, declares Tory MP

Dame Andrea Jenkyns has said she believes the government should publish statistics on crimes committed by migrants, saying she is concerned about the impact of mass illegal migration.

Speaking on GB News Andrea Jenkyns said: “I've done lots of written questions because, like many people in Britain at the moment, I'm concerned about the impact of this mass illegal migration.

“Every other week we hear some horrendous crimes, people being murdered, raped, and I want to know what the stats are. What percentage of people who come here illegally, what is their status and how many were in prison?

“I know at the moment, apparently, the ones that are recorded, it's something like 12 per cent of the prison population, but also they're not recording violent crimes, and that's so important to me.

“But did you also see the civil servants again, up to mischief this week? They publish an article saying that how the civil servants are trying to stop us publishing the crime stats regarding those illegal migrants.

“I think we've so got to push back, it's just ridiculous. I think the British taxpayer has a right to know what our money has been spent on.

“When people say we’re racist, no we just do not want to import criminals into Britain. It's about keeping our country safe.

“Regarding Starmer, I understand this is his 16th reinvention since becoming a Labour Party leader. To me he’s got more faces than a plastic surgeon is just getting ridiculous.

“But the British public and not stupid, they have a long memory and they know that he just reinvents, blows with the wind to see what he thinks will get him more votes.

“But they're empty pledges, he’s always flip flopping, and he relaunches every two to three months. And it's also his fake patriotism. I think people can see through this and I think he’s a danger to Britain because people do not know what they're getting with him.”

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The UK is 'not a safe country', frightened asylum seekers say

In June 2022, Kidus, 30, from Eritrea, came to the UK in a small boat with around two dozen other people.

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‘Has the British public lost faith in politics…?’ asks Lord Kulveer Ranger

Has the British public lost faith in politics…?

In short, no but their patience is definitely being tested.

Why do I say that? Because politics for the vast majority of people is not tribal, it’s practical.

The old adage of the people asking, “What’s in it for me if I lend you my vote?” is a question I’ve heard many time on the doorstep over the last 25 years as I’ve campaigned in general, local and mayoral elections across the country.

At the last general election in 2019, Boris Johnson won a landslide victory because he was clear with the electorate about what he was going to do - Get Brexit Done.

The country was tired of hearing and seeing what they rightly felt was a political stalemate and their democratic not being done.

Subsequently, Johnson’s Government was hit by the double whammy of a global pandemic and war in Europe. Yes, there were other political distractions that ate away at public confidence and led the Conservative Party to decide it had to change its leader not once but twice.

These convoluted political machinations left many Conservative voters, as well as the average voter wondering; what do the Conservatives stand for now?

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Critically, are they still the Party that can be trusted to rebuild the economy and deliver on core tenants like law and order, values that used to be the bedrock of what the Tories both stood for and would deliver on.

So what of Labour? More taxes on Non-Doms (AKA the rich who invest in industry and create jobs) and VAT on private school fees, political red meat to the rabid left that still sits under the Starmer applied veneer of centre-left liberalism.

I am sure their manifesto will have some eye-catching policies in it and they may even choose to tackle that sacred of sacred cows, NHS reform, but let’s be honest, however you package it, socialism is socialism and though Labour has significant leads in various polls, many voters are still undecided and as the recent local elections and the by-election in Blackpool South demonstrated, which had a 56.8 per cent turnout in 2019 and this year it was 32.5 per cent. Many voters are choosing to sit on their hands for now.

That’s because they want politicians who will stick to their promises and deliver what is best for them, their families and the country. Not gesture politics. Not virtue signalling.

First and foremost people know that it is the economy that enables everything else to happen.

The Government does not make money. It spends the money that businesses and workers pay in tax and if the economy doesn’t grow then all those promises do not get done.

So I do not believe the public has lost faith in politics but they want answers to the questions that need answering.

That is why I believe there will be a significant turnout when the general election is called later this year. The campaigns will hopefully demonstrate the clear blue water between the offers from the two major Parties, both on policies and values.

In turn, the public will have the opportunity to judge and then vote for the parties and the politicians that they believe will deliver for them.

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Labour launches selection process to replace Jeremy Corbyn at general election

Labour has launched the process to select a general election candidate to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the London seat of Islington North.

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Our only chance of climbing this electoral mountain is to open Tory Party to Nigel Farage, claims Jacob Rees-Mogg

The Conservative Party scored 19 per cent in a recent YouGov poll, compared to the Labour Party at 48 per cent. And the next election poses fundamental questions for my party.

But it all comes down to one thing.

One question: What does it mean to be a Conservative?

As when Moses parted the Red Sea, today The Sun has parted as has the haze and confusion of political fog surrounding this question.

The answer lies in reuniting the right. What we need is a big, open and comprehensive offer to those in Reform.

We had this in 2010 with the Liberals, who are hardly our soulmates. Most members of Reform are not a million miles away from most Conservative voters and members politically.

So the Prime Minister should offer candidate selection to senior members of the Reform Party, such as the estimable Ben Habib, Richard Tyson of course, the one and only Nigel Farage.

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The Sun's poll has today revealed that if Nigel were to re-enter politics with the Reform Party, they would reach 16 per cent in the polls, just a smidgen behind the Tories at 21 per cent in the same poll. When putting these percentages together, it gets us to 37 per cent to Labour's 41.

In addition, it would send such a clear message to the electorate of unity, of purpose. And the message here is that we've answered the question of what it means to be Conservative.

As when Moses parted the Red Sea, today The Sun has parted as has the haze and confusion of political fog surrounding this question.

The answer lies in reuniting the right. What we need is a big, open and comprehensive offer to those in Reform.

We had this in 2010 with the Liberals, who are hardly our soulmates. Most members of Reform are not a million miles away from most Conservative voters and members politically.

So the Prime Minister should offer candidate selection to senior members of the Reform Party, such as the estimable Ben Habib, Richard Tyson of course, the one and only Nigel Farage.

The Sun's poll has today revealed that if Nigel were to re-enter politics with the Reform Party, they would reach 16 per cent in the polls, just a smidgen behind the Tories at 21 per cent in the same poll. When putting these percentages together, it gets us to 37 per cent to Labour's 41.

In addition, it would send such a clear message to the electorate of unity, of purpose. And the message here is that we've answered the question of what it means to be Conservative.

It means slashing that migration down to the tens of thousands because every electoral mandate since 2010 has promised precisely this. It means stopping the small boats and securing our borders. It means leaving the oppressive jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights because the British people have had enough of foreign courts extending their powers to interfere in our sovereignty.

It means restoring power to elected and accountable politicians who represent you and taking back the powers of the quangocracy. This is everything from the OBR to Natural England to the Climate Change Committee. It means rolling back the disastrous green agenda and enabling cheap energy.

Granting freedom of choice for British consumers means rolling back the unproductive legacy of New Labour by abolishing the Equality Act, which has paved the way for wasteful wokery in both the public and private sectors. It means building more beautiful homes across the country and slashing the overreaching powers of the labyrinthine planning system.

It means implementing supply-side reforms that would unleash Britain's latent growth and lead to cuts in personal and corporation taxes, whilst cutting trade tariffs to enable cheaper goods for consumers.

Putting consumers, voters, and people first.

That is what voting for a Conservative Government would mean at the next election, is we manage this great offer. It's our only chance of climbing this electoral mountain.

For too long, we've ignored our voters because of a fundamental lack of identity. When the largest electoral mandate in British history passed in favour of Brexit in 2016, it represented so much more than just leaving the European Union.

It represented a vote of confidence in the nation-state over unelected and unaccountable supranational bureaucracies. It represented a rejection of mass migration, a rejection of the elite who for too long ignored the British national identity in favour of globalisation. The Conservative Party must represent these people, the very people who gave us, who lent us their support to give us an 80-seat majority in 2019.

With the help of Nigel Farage in a Conservative Government as a Conservative minister, with Boris Johnson probably returning as foreign secretary and welcoming the likes of Ben Habib and Richard Tice into our party, as well as pursuing genuinely conservative policies, winning the next election suddenly becomes within reach.

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Rishi Sunak fears new defection to Labour in just HOURS after being caught off-guard last week

Rishi Sunak has been warning of a possible third defection by a Conservative MP to Labour in as many weeks tomorrow.

Allies of the Prime Minister said they were preparing for another defection to Labour, following the decision by former Conservative MPs Natalie Elphicke and Dan Poulter to cross the floor in the House of Commons.

One senior MP told GB News that the team around the PM were braced for a defection, although this may be an attempt to raise expectations to damage Labour if a Tory MP does not cross the floor.

Government whips have been told to be on “defection watch” overnight for any suggestion that Tory MPs might try to jump ship to Labour.

Labour will be keen to keep any plans under wraps. Elphicke's defection last Wednesday was a cloak-and-dagger operation with only a handful of advisers and MPs around leader Sir Keir Starmer briefed on the plans.

Elphicke, MP for Dover, immediately said that Labour had the better policies to tackle the small boats crisis in the English Channel.

Poulter, a doctor, said when he announced his defection in a Sunday newspaper on April 27 that only Labour could tackle the problems facing the National Health Service.

In a damage limitation exercise, the sources close to Sunak have been downplaying the impact of the defections of both Elphicke and Poulter, by painting them as loners within the Conservative party.

Allies of Sunak are painting the Prime Minister's wide-ranging speech yesterday as a signal to his party and his MPs that he will now lead the party into the general election after the danger point to his leadership passed after the difficult local election results.

They are hoping that, with stronger-than-expected growth in the economy, a forecast fall in net migration and the possibility of migrant flights taking off to Rwanda, the party's fortunes might start to improve.

A source close to Starmer declined to comment on speculation about another defection when approached by GB News.

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Labour leader reassures union bosses in row over workers' rights plans – but it's not over yet

Sir Keir Starmer has moved to reassure trade union bosses about his party's plans to strengthen workers' rights, after he was accused of watering them down.

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Plans to 'criminalise' homelessness scrapped following backlash - but charity reiterates concern

The government has scrapped plans that critics argued would have "criminalised" homelessness following a backlash from Conservative MPs.

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We've never had two leaders going head to head for Prime Minister who are so boring, says Nigel Farage

So a big speech this morning from Rishi Sunak, a long speech from Rishi Sunak. I thought, you know what, I'm going to sit down. I'm going to watch all of this.

Whatever the content of the speech, and the riposte that we got from Keir Starmer, I have to say, in terms of delivery, after about 15 to 20 minutes, I was beginning to nod off.

There was no energy, there was no spark, there was no fizz.

Yet the arguments he was making were fundamentally important arguments.

He's saying the world is a less safe place than it's been at any moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and that he is the right man to lead the country.

Unsurprisingly, Sir Keir Starmer responded later on this afternoon.

He said: "The first duty of any government, particularly an incoming Labour government, is national security, the security of the country and that would be my first priority.

"Now the Prime Minister today has made a speech. I think it is seventh reset in 18 months. And I think that really shows you that the choice as we go into this election is now pretty clear."

Well, I don't know in terms of style, I can't imagine, perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps I'm being completely unfair.

I can't imagine we've ever had two leaders going head to head for who's going to be the next prime minister, who are, frankly, so boring.

I think we can predict a very, very low turnout.

But back to the important question.

Given the challenges we face both externally and internally, who is the right person to lead the country forward after the next election?

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‘Starmer will bring in mansion tax by granting huge council tax increases for nice areas and nice homes,’ writes Kelvin MacKenzie

Thanks to The Telegraph, I learned that Labour’s Welsh Government is using satellites to spy on the homes of their residents who have made something of their lives. They are tracking nice homes in decent areas so that they can penalise them with dramatically higher council tax.

If you have a semi or a detached house with a large garden, or live near a good school, or the area is comparatively crime-free then the Senedd will introduce higher council tax bands so your local authority can add many thousands of pounds to what you pay annually.

You might think, ‘well that’s the price for living in a nation which is skint and has only ever produced socialists (and the NHS!) and it serves them right’. You would be so wrong.

Starmer has said he will not be putting up income tax (the consummate liar Gordon Brown made the same promise) but that doesn’t mean your pocket will not be emptied by Labour in order to subsidise those who prefer to sit on their increasingly large rear ends while you do the work.

So, you can be absolutely sure that Starmer will be adopting the Welsh idea. Already the average council tax bill is £2,065, but the H band in areas like Nottingham are an eye-watering £4,823, Lewes is £4,776 and Dorset £4,776.

That’s already £100 a week. What do we get for that? Our bins taken, potholes aren’t repaired and police who are never seen and never catch a burglar. And the idea is that a Labour Government wants even more.

What is equally ridiculous is the way that councils keep the rents of their tenants artificially low. In places like Westminster where you can expect to pay £2,000+ a month for a flat, the council charges £600-700 in rent. And the council tax for affordable homes in Westminster can be as low as £700 annually.

Wouldn’t we all like to live in Westminster at those prices. Plus, with a bit of trickery and limp, you can claim housing benefits and PIP and effectively live for nothing.

Why don’t we start charging those living in council-owned accommodation what they can afford? It’s like that in the private area. With minimum wage being £11.44 an hour, those doing a 40-hour week are making north of £23,000.

Don’t tell me that with a couple both in work making between them £46,000, they couldn’t, and should, be paying more than £700 a month. Means testing must be bought in.

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I absolutely guarantee that Starmer and Reeves will raise taxes all over the place with their version of a mansion tax - a dramatic increase in council tax being the first.

Getting to work to pay these new and unexpected bills won’t be getting any easier under Labour either, with the return to total state ownership of the railways.

Once again commuting became a game of chance last week with Aslef striking and yet most of the nightmare was caused by companies which have already been taken back into state ownership.

Northern, Southeastern, Welsh Railways, the Transpennines and Northern are all fully owned by the Government.

With Labour in charge, the unions know that they have a sporting chance of keeping all the terms and conditions (i.e. doing as little as possible) plus the opportunity of the management caving in to unreasonable pay demands because the management is in fact the Government.

Today most of trade unionism is concentrated in the public sector, with 48 per cent of state employees belonging to a union compared with 12 per cent of private sector workers.

So, it will fare easier to give in to the strikers, get the network running again and worry about where the money is coming from on another day.

If the polls are right, a 200+majority for Starmer will mean the number of Lefty MPs coming in will treble, meaning there will be a lot more support for the doctors wanting to kill your old mum for a pay rise or more for the Aslef drivers who have been buggering up your travel for the last couple of years.

Incredible that none of this is ever brought to public discussion by the lefties at the BBC or even ITV. It has to be raised by either GB News or The Telegraph and Labour would love to shut it down.

So, personally, I am grateful to a) The shareholders who made this discussion possible and b) To you who support with both your brain and your wallet. Thank you.

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PM to set out 'bold ideas' in 'major' speech

Rishi Sunak will give a speech on Monday setting out "bold ideas to change society" - as he seeks to regain momentum following the defection of one of his MPs to Labour and a hammering at the local elections.

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The Week… Rishi Sunak questions if we'd be safe under Labour

Two of Westminster's best-connected journalists, Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard, guide you through their top predictions for the next seven days in British politics.

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‘Labour’s state pension promise is bad for the country - a U-turn is needed’, writes Patrick O’Donnell

Britons are rightfully concerned about their retirement future and the Labour Party is hoping to relieve their concern ahead of the next General Election.

Sir Keir Starmer is hoping to secure more of the pensioner vote later this year but voters should be wary about trusting the Official Opposition’s promises.

Earlier this week, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed her party would not raise the state pension age when it likely returns to power.

Reeves described the proposal to hike the retirement age threshold earlier than planned as not “justifiable” during a phone-in interview with LBC.

She said: “What you’d need to see for any further increases in the state pension age is life expectancy increasing and sadly it’s going backwards at the moment, but also healthy life expectancy, and sadly that is also going back at the moment.

“So I don’t think there’s any justification for further increases in the state pension age.”

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This comes after both Labour and the Conservatives have publicly pledged to keep the triple lock, the metric used to determine the annual state pension rate hike.

While this may sound good on paper, politicians need to be honest about the cost on the public purse by keeping the state pension status quo as it is.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned that spending on the retirement benefit will lie within a range of £5billion to £45billion by 2050.

For the Shadow Chancellor to commit to not raising the state pension age with these estimates is alarming.

There is no feasible way to prepare for future Budgets when pension expenditure can balloon dramatically within the space of the year.

During the cost of living crisis, state pension payments jumped by over 10 per cent thanks to the UK experiencing historic high levels of inflation.

Money for the state pension comes from current taxpayers of working-age, a generation who are unlikely to get the same state pension their parents and grandparents have.

Pensioners deserve financial support and the cost of living crisis has been tough on millions of older households.

However, that should never be at the expense of the retirement prospects of future generations.

The state pension age is already set to jump from 66 to 67 in 2028, and then to 68 by the mid-2040s.

However, experts have suggested that it should be hiked to 70 by 2024 to balance the books.

Labour has made an effort to return to the centre ground of British politics with “common sense” policies likely to be part of their agenda in power.

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The left wing party has faced scrutiny over its stances on the welfare state and public spending in the past. It should not get a pass on spending just because it sounds like it suits pensioner.s

U-turns have become a staple of Starmer’s time in power so pensioners should prepare to be thrown under the bus.

From ceasefires in Gaza to the nationalisation of public services, there are few policies the “new” Labour has kept in place to the ire of the party’s base and the confusion of swing voters.

Despite this track record, a U-turn on this state pension age pledge would be most welcome and signal Labour’s seriousness about getting the country back on track after years of mismanagement.

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Labour is gambling Tory MP's defection shows which way political wind is blowing | Adam Boulton

The Labour Party is in shock over the leadership's decision to welcome the defection of the right-wing former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke.

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Natalie Elphicke says claims she lobbied justice secretary over ex-husband's trial are 'nonsense'

Accusations MP Natalie Elphicke lobbied the justice secretary in 2020 to interfere in her then-husband's sex offences trial are "nonsense", her spokesperson has said.

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Pension warning as 10 million older households to lose payments thanks to Rishi Sunak's 'economic failure'

Some 10 million pensioners could lose access to vital payment support thanks to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's "economic failure", the Labour Party has claimed.

The Official Opposition is warning millions may be stripped of their Winter Fuel Payments if the Tories decide to means-test the benefit in an attempt to fill a £45billion spending black hole.

Last September, Sunak was reportedly interested in the idea of determining whether someone is eligible for Winter Fuel Payments depending on their income and savings.

In its current form, the benefit helps older households cover the costs of their energy bills with pensioners being potentially eligible to get anywhere between £250 and £600.

Someone is entitled to this support if they were born before September 25, 1957 and live in the UK. It is not means-tested.

When asked about the Winter Fuel Payment at Prime Minister's Questions, the Prime Minister refused to rule out making changes to the eligibility criteria.

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Based on research carried out by Labour, means-testing could see only 1.4 million pensioners eligible for Winter Fuel Payments going forward.

This is compared to 11.4 million elderly Britons who currently claim the benefit amid the ongoing cost of living crisis.

In response to these findings, Labour is demanding Sunak "comes clean" on how the Conservative Party plan to pay for his £46billion unfunded pledge to abolish National Insurance.

Earlier this year, the Prime Minster said it was his "long term plan" to end the tax which is charged on people's incomes

Furthermore, Labour is calling the Tories to rule out means-testing Winter Fuel Payments going into the next General Election.

Both parties have committed to keeping the triple lock on state pensions and not raise the retirement age in an attempt to entice older voters.

Alison McGovern MP, the acting Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, outlined what Labour believe is potentially at stake for older Britons.

She said: “Pensioners across the country are paying a heavy price for 14 years of Tory economic failure.

“The Tories need to come clean about how they will pay for their reckless £46billion unfunded proposal to cut National Insurance and to rule out means-testing Winter Fuel Payments to pay for it.

“Britain’s pensioners deserve certainty and stability, which is why Labour are committed to keeping the triple lock on state pensions and why we have a plan to grow the economy to put money back into people’s pockets, to make work pay, and to once again be the party for pensioners.”

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Sunak's record in office when it comes to pensioners has received a mixed response as of late.

Despite promising to keep the triple lock, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's decision to freeze tax allowances has pulled many older people into higher tax brackets.

The impact of fiscal drag has been referred to as a "stealth tax" by experts at a time when pension incomes are already being stretched.

GB News has contacted the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for comment.

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The optics are bad for Sunak... but both parties will struggle to stop the boats - analysis by Katherine Forster

Who would have thought it?

In Dover this morning, there was Natalie Elphicke, the local, notably right-wing MP on the front line of the small boats crisis, singing the praises of her leader, down on the Kent coast for a big announcement on ‘Stopping the Boats’.

Only that leader was Sir Keir Starmer. Elphicke had spectacularly ‘crossed the floor’ on Wednesday, defecting to ‘a changed Labour party’. Under the Prime Minister’s leadership, she now says the Conservatives have become ‘a by-word for incompetence and division’.

Tory MPs are flabbergasted and cross. And many Labour MPs aren’t happy either. But the calculation is that voters will just see a Tory MP turning to Labour for border security.

The optics are pretty damning. And Labour today has parked its tanks firmly on the Conservative lawn.

Traditionally of course, the Tories are more trusted on borders than Labour, and the Brexit rallying cry, to ‘take back control’ included, crucially, taking back control of our borders.

To date, the government has very visibly failed with that. Over 9 thousand have crossed the Channel illegally already this year, up a third on this point last year. Despite the many appearances at lecterns emblazoned with the words ‘Stop the Boats’ Sunak is not succeeding.
The Tories have clung to the line that Labour ‘don’t have a plan’.

But now Labour do. And they’ve unveiled it today in Dover.

Labour plans to tackle the small boats crisis through cracking down on the criminal gangs who get rich on human misery and desperation. Starmer promises a new Border Security Command, and one thousand more officers, recruited by MI5, the National Crime Agency and Border Force.

There’s plans to work more closely with European allies, more intelligence sharing, plus increased use of anti-terror powers. They say they’ll use the £75 million saved in not sending people to Rwanda.

Better, they reason, to stop people crossing the Channel illegally in the first place, than worry about what to do with them when they are here.

The problem is of course, as Starmer admitted, that this stuff is hard. And the government already unveiled a similar scheme a year or so ago. Despite the constant focus on Rwanda, the Tories have many strands to their attempts to stop the boats. So much of this, with the exception of involving spies, feels familiar.

And then there’s Rwanda.

Sunak says there will be a ‘regular drumbeat of flights taking off throughout the summer’. Starmer now says he believes migrants will finally be sent.

But Labour will scrap it. Even if it’s working.

Starmer calls it ‘a gimmick’. And says Labour will scrap it ‘straight away’.

Though many are horrified by the whole notion of Rwanda, there will be plenty of voters outraged if it is working, and is ditched.

Labour also says they will appoint more case-workers and process claims quicker.

And Starmer, when pushed on numbers for what looks like success with channel crossings, wouldn’t go there. He said he would ‘like it to come down completely’ but clearly won’t set a target.

Perhaps he’s learnt from Sunak’s pledge to ‘Stop the boats’.

The whole of Europe, and indeed the US, are grappling with rising levels of illegal migration. Other European countries are looking at processing asylum seekers offshore. And the numbers crossing the Mediterranean dwarf those attempting the Channel.

The government made Rwanda its flagship policy of many. Starmer says smashing the gangs is the solution.

But the truth is that whoever is in power is going to struggle with this. Regardless of their colour or ideology.

And, in Dover, the boats keep coming.

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Calls for arena ticket levy and tax relief to stop music venue closure 'crisis'

A cut in VAT and a new levy on arena and stadium tickets are urgently needed to stop grassroots music venues from closing, MPs have said.

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