Since Keir Starmer moved into Downing Street more than 50,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel, but a Labour MP says it’s not their fault.
Baroness Smith of Malvern, a former home secretary under Gordon Brown, said this proves that the Tory government failed as the criminal gangs became more embedded.
On Tuesday a further 430 migrants crossed the English Channel from France, this will be embarrassing for the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister promised last year to “smash the gangs,” but since then a further 23,242 have crossed the Channel who are now living in the UK at taxpayers expense.
GB News revealed that since Labour has been in power, 50,227 migrants are now in the UK.
Lady Smith told the BBC, is an unacceptable number of people. It sort of demonstrates the way over the last six or seven years that the criminal gangs have got an absolute foothold in the tragic trafficking of people across the Channel.
The education minister later told Times Radio: “We have taken a lot of important action already, but what we’re facing is a criminal endeavour which has got long roots into the ground, I’m afraid, because it hasn’t been tackled by the last government over recent years.
That’s why we need the action we’ve already taken to increase the speed with which we make asylum decisions, to remove more people from this country, the groundbreaking deal that we now have with the French and we’ve already detained people who’ve come to the country.
A Home Office spokesperson said, “Through international intelligence sharing under our Border Security Command, enhanced enforcement operations in Northern France and tougher legislation in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, we are strengthening international partnerships and boosting our ability to identify, disrupt, and dismantle criminal gangs whilst strengthening the security of our borders.
