Keir Starmer is accountable for report surge in unlawful migrants, not Brexit | Politics | News | EUROtoday

The Prime Minister has as soon as once more turned the reality on its head by attempting accountable Brexit – and me – for the hundreds of unlawful immigrants touchdown on our shores. Keir Starmer says he “would gently point out to Nigel Farage and others that before we left the EU, we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU” to ship again asylum seekers.

He even known as the boats now crossing the Channel full of unlawful immigrants “Farage boats”. Let me level out to Starmer, none-too-gently, that even by Labour’s requirements, that is an awfully devious and dishonest effort to mislead the British individuals.

Until 2020, when the UK left the European Union, the Dublin Convention did permit us to attempt to return some unlawful immigrants to different EU member states.

But they might additionally return asylum-seekers to us. And as with so many EU offers, Britain received the more severe finish of the discount.

For instance, in 2018, Britain requested our EU neighbours to take again 5,500 asylum seekers.

They agreed to take simply 209. Meanwhile, due to the identical returns settlement, we accepted 1,215 asylum seekers from them.

So the very fact is that, below the Dublin Convention that Starmer now praises, the UK was a internet recipient of asylum seekers from different EU members. It did nothing to assist us cease the circulate of unlawful immigrants into Britain. He is aware of this.

Since then, that circulate has turn out to be a flood – not as a result of we left the EU, however as a result of first the Tories and now Labour have betrayed the promise of Brexit.

The institution events have didn’t take again management of Britain’s borders. Instead, they’ve opened the gates to unlawful immigrants, hundreds of whom they put up in luxurious motels at taxpayers’ expense.

It is Starmer who ought to take private duty for the boats now touchdown on our shores.

From the day Labour was elected in July 2024, to this Tuesday, September 30, no fewer than 57,329 unlawful immigrants arrived in Britain – a report quantity. Strangely, that’s a report Starmer didn’t wish to boast about at Labour’s convention.

Reform UK is the one celebration that believes in Britain sufficient to take the robust measures wanted to safe our borders.

We will detain and deport unlawful immigrants, depart the ECHR and cease the boats. That’s an immigration coverage I’m completely satisfied to place my identify to.