2 July 2025, 19:08

By Chris Philp MP

Will illegal immigration be lower next year?

It’s not a trick question or a riddle. Yet Pat McFadden, the Prime Minister’s right hand man, the fixer, the man Starmer trusts to steady the ship, failed to answer this live on LBC, dodging the question three times.

We now have a government that won’t even say if the boats will stop, because it knows they won’t.

Starmer’s Britain is becoming the soft underbelly of Europe where the boats land, the traffickers profit, and the taxpayer picks up the tab.

We’ve already passed 20,000 illegal Channel crossings in 2025 – this is the worst year on record so far for small boat crossings. And if we don’t stop this spiral now, it won’t just be a record year for crossings.

It’ll be the year Britain stopped deciding who comes and who stays.

McFadden’s silence was revealing. It’s the sound of a government that’s out of ideas.

Labour came into office arrogantly claiming that they would smash the gangs – this claim now lies in tatters. Labour know the numbers won’t go down, they’ve already accepted failure, and that failure now sits at the heart of government.

Upon entering Downing Street, Starmer detonated the entire legal framework keeping the border system afloat.

The Illegal Migration Act 2023, which made removal mandatory for those entering the UK illegally, was scrapped before it could even be enforced.........

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