23 July 2025, 10:54

By Andrew Marr

Let’s start with the blindingly obvious. This isn’t working.

So far, nothing done by Labour ministers to stop the flow of asylum-seeking migrants across the channel has worked. The numbers coming in this year are 50% higher, at around 21,000 so far. There is a record number of 109,000 people claiming asylum here in the last recorded year with more than 32,000 of them in hotel accommodation.

Numbers are rising despite 'smash the gangs' rhetoric, the changes in the law, the deal with France, the deal with Germany, changed tactics by the French police – and yesterday's announcement of freezing the assets of people smugglers will have........

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