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August 20, 2025
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
UK

Top 3rd World Diplomat Brags ‘Much of London Feels Like Bangladesh.’

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Bangladesh’s High Commissioner (Ambassador) to the United Kingdom has said that much of London feels like Bangladesh.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Bangladeshi High Commissioner Abida Islam; residents of London.

📍WHEN & WHERE: London, United Kingdom; August 2025.

💬KEY QUOTE: “So much of London—especially east London—feels like Bangladesh. I’m looking forward next year to iftar in Trafalgar Square.” – Abida Islam

🎯IMPACT: The comments underscore London’s radically changing demographics, with minority groups taking over certain areas to the extent that they no longer feel alien to politicians from their ethnic homelands.

IN FULL

Bangladesh’s High Commissioner (Ambassador) to the United Kingdom, Abida Islam, has drawn attention to London’s radical cultural and demographic shifts. Speaking to the establishment Financial Times for an article titled, ‘Where ambassadors to the UK dine in London for tastes of home,’ she said: “I’m fortunate. When I was posted in Mexico and South Korea, my homesickness was worse and hit hardest at mealtimes. But so much of London—especially east London—feels like Bangladesh.”

The diplomat added that she was “looking forward next year to iftar in Trafalgar Square,” in reference to the annual Islamic fast-breaking feasts championed by Mayor Sadiq Khan in the British capital’s most iconic public square.

Islam’s remarks come as London continues to transform under the weight of decades of mass migration, accelerated to record levels by former Conservative (Tory) prime ministers Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, and maintained at historic levels by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer following the election of the Labour Party in mid-2024.

Bangladeshis are particularly dominant in the London borough of Tower Hamlets, one of several areas where the municipal government has been tearing down English flags raised on lampposts and other infrastructure by members of the public. Notably, Tower Hamlets Mayor Luftur Rahman—himself a Bangladeshi immigrant previously ejected from office for electoral fraud but reelected once his ban expired—took a more tolerant approach towards the borough being festooned with Palestinian flags following the Hamas terror attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Other prominent Bangladeshi politicians in England include Prime Minister Starmer’s former Anti-Corruption Minister, Tulip Siddiq, who resigned after the Bangladeshi government began investigating her family for corruption.

Image by Kyle Taylor.

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August 20, 2025
News
UK

Vance Forced British Government to Back Down on Invading Americans’ Privacy.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Vice President J.D. Vance played a key role in convincing the British government to drop its demands for Apple to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted user data.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Vice President Vance, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, Apple, and the British government.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Negotiations occurred over several months, with a diplomatic visit to the United Kingdom earlier this month.

💬KEY QUOTE: “[T]he UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.” – Tulsi Gabbard.

🎯IMPACT: The agreement preserves Americans’ privacy rights in the face of ongoing efforts by European governments to effectively globalize their online censorship regimes.

IN FULL

Vice President J.D. Vance “personally” intervened to force Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government in the United Kingdom to abandon its push for Apple to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted user data. A U.S. official told the media that Vance “was in charge and was personally involved in negotiating a deal, including having direct conversations with the British government.”

In February, reports emerged that the British Home Secretary—roughly equivalent to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary—had issued a covert order under Britain’s Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, pressuring Apple to weaken iCloud encryption. The Vance-brokered agreement “ensure[s] Americans’ private data remains private and our constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected,” according to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Vance has often used his position as Vice President to push back against the growing censorship apparatus across Europe, particularly in areas where it attempts to encroach on Americans’ free speech rights. Earlier this year at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Vance warned: “Europe faces many challenges, but the crisis this continent faces right now, the crisis I believe we all face together, is one of our own making. If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.”

Elsewhere, the Vice President has tied his concerns over censorship in Europe to the continent’s ongoing reliance on America for its defense, cautioning: “Think about this: Germany’s entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer. There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today. Do you think that the American taxpayer is going to stand for that if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet?”

Restrictions on free speech in the United Kingdom, specifically, are facing increasing U.S. scrutiny under the Trump-Vance administration, with the U.S. State Department’s latest human rights report highlighting credible evidence of curbs on free expression. The report flagged Britain’s new Online Safety Act, which grants British regulators expanded powers to monitor and censor online content, including on U.S.-based platforms with British users, as particularly problematic.

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August 19, 2025
Immigration
UK

London Officials Are Tearing Down English Flags.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Tower Hamlets Council in London, England, has been removing English St. George’s Cross flags put up as part of the ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ initiative. The municipal government previously allowed Palestinian flags to fly in the borough.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Tower Hamlets Council, led by Bangladesh-born Mayor Lutfur Rahman, and patriotic activists participating in ‘Operation Raise the Colours’.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Tower Hamlets, East London, in recent days.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Where flags are attached to council-owned infrastructure without permission, they may be removed as part of routine maintenance.” – Tower Hamlets Council spokesman.

🎯IMPACT: The removal of England flags has sparked accusations of hypocrisy and intensified a nationwide debate over the treatment of national symbols.

IN FULL

English St George’s Cross flags placed on lampposts and other public infrastructure as part of the grassroots ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ movement in Tower Hamlets, East London, are being torn down by the municipal government. This campaign, which started on Facebook, has seen British and English flags put up in many British cities and towns, including London, Bradford, Newcastle, Norwich, and Swindon.

Tower Hamlets Council, led by Bangladesh-born Mayor Lutfur Rahman, of the pro-Palestinian Aspire Party, has drawn criticism for moving quickly to remove the English national flag, despite previously allowing Palestinian flags to be flown from public infrastructure in the wake of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas.

Notably, Rahman—formerly of Britain’s governing Labour Party—was ejected from the mayoralty in 2015 for electoral fraud. Still, the Bangladeshi community, which dominates the borough demographically, voted him back into office once his ban from holding elected office expired.

He resisted removing numerous Palestinian flags just last year, citing “community cohesion,” only relenting under threat of legal action by Jewish residents.

‘Operation Raise the Colours’ began as a response to illegal immigrants, largely unvetted, being placed into a hotel in London’s Canary Wharf en masse. The migrants soon caused tension with locals, with one entering a woman’s home but being protected by police from locals who assembled in response, with law enforcement insisting he had not committed a crime. Similar migrant hotels are present across the country.

Activists elsewhere in England have been painting roundabouts with the St. George’s Cross, after their local councils began pulling down flags. However, as in London, Palestinian flags have been removed with much less alacrity, with Birmingham City Council, for instance, claiming that taking the foreign banners down would require additional security.

The controversy in Birmingham only deepened when the city’s library was illuminated in the colors of the Pakistani and Indian flags to celebrate their independence anniversaries shortly after the English flags had been taken down.

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August 15, 2025
Sports
UK

Opening EPL Match Paused Because Player Got Feelings Hurt by ‘Racist’ Heckler.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: The opening match of the 2025/2026 Premier League season was halted due to an alleged racist remark by one spectator.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Referee Anthony Taylor, A.F.C. Bournemouth player Antoine Semenyo, Liverpool F.C., and the spectator.

📍WHEN & WHERE: August 15, 2025, at Liverpool F.C.’s home stadium in England.

💬KEY QUOTE: “They paused the Liverpool Bournemouth match because one of the players got their feelings hurt.” – Raheem Kassam

🎯IMPACT: The incident highlights the increasing sensitivity of soccer players and institutions.

IN FULL

The opening match of the 2025/2026 Premier League soccer season between A.F.C. Bournemouth and defending champions Liverpool F.C. on Friday was unexpectedly halted after a Bournemouth player reported an alleged racist remark by a single spectator to the referee.

Antoine Semenyo, a 25-year-old black man born in Chelsea, London, to Ghanaian immigrants who plays for Ghana in international matches, reported the alleged incident to referee Anthony Taylor. The official halted the match shortly afterwards, and held talks with Bornemouth manager Andoni Iraola, who is Spanish, and Liverpool manager Arend “Arne” Slot, who is Dutch.

Pausing the match over a single spectator, reportedly a Liverpool supporter, shouting an insult at Semenyo has been decried by soccer fans as overkill on social media. Raheem Kassam—Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse—commented, “They paused the Liverpool Bournemouth match because one of their players got their feelings hurt.”

English soccer has long been obsessed with “anti-racism,” with Premier League teams “taking a knee” for Black Lives Matter after George Floyd’s death as a matter of course until late 2022. The English women’s national team continued to take the knee before matches until July 2025.

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August 14, 2025
Immigration
UK

Britain Has the Worst EMIGRATION Stat in the World.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Britain is set to lose a record number of millionaires in 2025, with 16,500 expected to emigrate as economic uncertainty grows and illegal immigration increases.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Wealthy residents leaving the United Kingdom, Britain’s governing Labour Party, Dr. Juerg Steffen of Henley & Partners.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The data pertains to 2025, with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) becoming a top destination for millionaires while Britain sees record illegal boat arrivals.

💬KEY QUOTE: “2025 marks a pivotal moment. For the first time in a decade of tracking, a European country leads the world in millionaire outflows.” – Dr. Juerg Steffen

🎯IMPACT: The United Kingdom’s economic competitiveness and investment appeal are collapsing under the leftist Labour Party.

IN FULL

Britain is on course to lose 16,500 millionaires in 2025, the largest-ever exodus of wealthy residents from the country. This emigration wave coincides with a surge in small boat crossings of the English Channel by illegal immigrants, which are also breaking records under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s leftist Labour Party.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) stands to gain the most from this outflow, with 9,800 millionaires expected to relocate there in 2025, bringing with them an estimated $63 billion in investable assets. Globally, 142,000 high-net-worth individuals are projected to move this year, a 16 percent increase compared to 2024.

Dr. Juerg Steffen, CEO of Henley & Partners—which describes itself as “the global leader in residence and citizenship by investment”—emphasized the importance of this shift: “2025 marks a pivotal moment. For the first time in a decade of tracking, a European country leads the world in millionaire outflows. This isn’t just about changes to the tax regime. It reflects a deepening perception among the wealthy that greater opportunity, freedom, and stability lie elsewhere.”

The trend was reported earlier this year in Britain’s capital, London, when the financial hub dropped out of the five wealthiest cities in the world due to millionaires fleeing the hyper-diverse city.

Image by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street.

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August 13, 2025
1A
UK

Trump Admin Slams British Censorship Regime in Human Rights Report.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: The U.S. State Department released its annual Human Rights Report, highlighting serious and growing restrictions on freedom of expression in the United Kingdom.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The State Department, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government in the United Kingdom, and individuals targeted by the British government for their speech.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The report was released on August 12, 2025, with the relevant sections focusing on events in the United Kingdom.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Societies are strengthened by free expression of opinion, and government censorship is intolerable in a free society.” – State Department Press Secretary Tammy Bruce

🎯IMPACT: The report underscores growing concerns about free speech collapsing in Britain.

IN FULL

The Trump administration has raised concerns about the collapse of free speech protections in the United Kingdom, warning that government censorship is becoming more widespread. In its annual Human Rights Report, the U.S. State Department cited “credible reports of serious restrictions on freedom of expression” in Britain, adding that the situation had “worsened” in 2024 following Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s election win last July, returning the leftist Labour Party to power for the first time in 14 years.

The report criticized the United Kingdom’s controversial Online Safety Act, which allegedly aims to tackle harmful online content, such as child pornography, but has drawn criticism for stifling political speech on issues such as immigration. It also examines the British government’s response to the mass murder of young children by the son of two asylum seekers in Southport, England, accusing officials of using the incident to suppress speech.

While not named in the report, Lucy Connolly, a former childminder and wife of a Conservative Party councillor, was reportedly of interest to the White House. Connolly was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for a post on X after the Southport killings, in which she wrote: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you’re at it, take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist, so be it.”

Critics claim her sentence is part of a “two-tier justice” system, with some voices facing harsher consequences than others for speech. For instance, Salman Iftikhar, a Pakistani businessman with the British equivalent of a green card, received only 15 months for physically accosting a white air stewardess and telling her she would be “dragged by [her] hair” from the specific hotel where cabin crew were staying and “gang raped and set on fire”. He added that “the white sheep-shagging bitch will be dead. The floor of [her] hotel will be blown up and it will disappear.”

The U.S. report also referenced Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old veteran convicted in 2023 for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in memory of his aborted son. His case was cited by Vice President J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, where he warned that Britain was facing a “crisis of censorship.”

State Department Press Secretary Tammy Bruce said: “We consider freedom of expression to be a foundational component of a functioning democracy,” adding: “Societies are strengthened by free expression of opinion, and government censorship is intolerable in a free society.”

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August 13, 2025
Immigration
UK

Migrant Smuggler Arrests Decline Despite UK PM’s ‘Smash the Gangs’ Pledge.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Arrests for organised immigration crime by the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) fell by 16 percent in the year to April, despite Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pledging to “smash the gangs” behind people smuggling.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The NCA, Keir Starmer, Reform Party leader Nigel Farage.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Data covers the year leading to April 2025, with incidents focused on the English Channel and British borders.

💬KEY QUOTE: “It’s never been easier to be a people smuggler.” – Shadow Attorney General Robert Jenrick

🎯IMPACT: Over 50,000 migrants have arrived in the United Kingdom via small boats since Labour entered office.

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 The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) says arrests for organised immigration crime dropped by 16 percent in the year to April. This comes despite Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to “smash the gangs” driving people-smuggling.

Small boat migrant arrivals in the United Kingdom have surpassed 50,000 since Labour entered office, breaking records. Shadow Attorney General Robert Jenrick, of the formerly governing Conservative (Tory) Party, criticized the government’s handling of the issue, stating, “It’s never been easier to be a people smuggler.” However, small boat crossings began in earnest under the previous Conservative government, growing progressively worse over time.

“As I predicted 5 years ago, unless we deport illegal migrants the invasion will be huge,” Reform Party leader Nigel Farage wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday. “50,000 since our weak Prime Minister took office and there is no sign of it stopping.”

Image by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street.

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August 13, 2025
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
UK

British Politician Faces Machete Threat at French Migrant Camp.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Britain’s Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp, was pelted with bottles and confronted with a “curved machete” during a visit to a migrant camp near Calais, France.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Conservative (Tory) Party’s Chris Philp, Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon South and Shadow Home Secretary, and migrants including an unnamed man wielding a machete.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Tuesday evening to Wednesday afternoon, in the “New Jungle” migrant camp outside Dunkirk, France.

💬KEY QUOTE: “People who pull knives, these people are on their way to the UK in dinghies and we were certainly seriously threatened just a few minutes ago.” – Chris Philp

🎯IMPACT: The incident highlights the escalating dangers at migrant camps and the threat to the British public posed by unvetted migrants crossing the English Channel in increasing numbers, with small boat crossings surpassing 50,000 since Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party entered office in mid-2024.

IN FULL

Chris Philp, the British Shadow Home Secretary and Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon South, faced a violent confrontation during a visit to a migrant camp near Calais, France, where he was pelted with bottles and threatened with a “curved machete.”

The incident occurred at the “New Jungle” camp outside Dunkirk, where Philp traveled on Tuesday evening to assess the situation on the ground—with migrants having long camped along the French coast in large numbers while they wait to break into Britain by stowing away in trucks or, increasingly, via small boats. Successive British governments have paid the French hundreds of millions of pounds to police the area, but crossings have continued to increase.

Philp reported that a man brandished a machete at him, swinging it in the air to intimidate others in the camp. He described the experience as “pretty shocking” and noted the presence of up to around 2,000 migrants in the camp, many already carrying life jackets. The visit came as the number of such crossings since Labour took power last year exceeded 50,000.

Notably, Philp was a Minister of State at the Home Office—broadly responsible for border security, immigration enforcement, policing, and national security in the British government—and the previous Conservative government, which allowed the Channel crisis to take hold and grow progressively worse in the first place.

Reform Party leader Nigel Farage regularly criticized Philp for the Conservatives’ mismanagement of illegal immigration during his time in office, noting in 2021, “Our hopeless immigration minister Chris Philp is in Calais today. Making sure our recent 54 million pound donation to the French is being used to stop migrants leaving French beaches. 1,300 have come in the last 3 days! Minister, you have been mugged.”

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August 13, 2025
UK
War

UK Prime Minister: Peace Is Possible in Ukraine Thanks to Trump.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer stated that a “viable” chance for a Ukraine ceasefire exists due to President Donald J. Trump’s efforts.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Keir Starmer, Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and European leaders.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Calls took place ahead of a meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska on Friday.

💬KEY QUOTE: No 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s official residence, issued a statement on behalf of European leaders thanking President Trump “for his efforts in bringing Putin to the table in pursuit of a ceasefire to end the ongoing bloodshed.”

🎯IMPACT: European leaders have expressed readiness to support a lasting peace in Ukraine.

IN FULL

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has suggested that a “viable” ceasefire opportunity exists in the Ukraine war, crediting President Donald J. Trump for making this possible. Starmer said his left-wing government was ready to help “increase pressure” on Russia if necessary, aligning with Trump’s moves to begin exposing secondary sanctions on Russia’s trading partners.

Number 10 Downing Street—the British Prime Minister’s official residence—issued a statement on behalf of European leaders thanking President Trump “for his efforts in bringing Putin to the table in pursuit of a ceasefire to end the ongoing bloodshed.”

However, No 10 added that “The Prime Minister was clear that our support for Ukraine is unwavering—international borders must not be changed by force and Ukraine must have robust and credible security guarantees to defend its territorial integrity as part of any deal.”

A peace proposal in which there is no de facto acknowledgement of Russian control over at least part of Ukraine is unlikely to go anywhere, with Crimea, for instance, having been annexed by Moscow over a decade ago, with seemingly no realistic prospect of the Ukrainian military recapturing it.

Speaking after virtual talks with Starmer, Trump, and European leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized allied unity, describing it as “one voice towards one mission.”

The virtual meeting involved leaders from the U.S., Ukraine, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Finland, NATO, and the European Union (EU), ahead of a Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. Recent intelligence indicates Russian forces have intensified their offensive in eastern Ukraine in recent days, making their most significant gains in years—perhaps making it less likely that the Kremlin will offer significant concessions.

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August 12, 2025
Immigration
UK

Over 50,000 Illegals Have Reached England in Small Boats.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: The number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats since Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party came to power has surpassed 50,000, according to Home Office data.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Britain’s Labour government, the formerly governing Conservative Party, illegal immigrants, and people-smuggling gangs.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Between July 5, 2024, and August 11, 2024, across the English Channel.

💬KEY QUOTE: “As I predicted 5 years ago, unless we deport illegal migrants the invasion will be huge. 50,000 since our weak Prime Minister took office and there is no sign of it stopping.” – Reform Party leader Nigel Farage

🎯IMPACT: The milestone highlights ongoing challenges in addressing illegal immigration and the political difficulties faced by the government.

IN FULL

Over 50,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats since Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party returned to power last year, according to figures from the British Home Office—roughly equivalent to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). On August 11 alone, 474 migrants made the illegal journey across the Channel from France, bringing the total since Labour’s July 2024 general election win to 50,271. This figure is 13,925 higher than the total recorded over the same period before Labour regained office.

Responding to the milestone, Baroness Smith, a Labour minister in the Home Office, said the number represented “an unacceptable number of people” but claimed that the government was making progress. “People-smuggling gangs have become increasingly influential in recent years, exploiting vulnerable people and profiting from their desperation,” Smith said.

The surge in small boat arrivals has drawn sharp criticism from the opposition. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp called the situation “the worst illegal immigration crisis in our history” and accused the government of failing to control the border. “This is a taxpayer-funded ferry service for the people-smuggling trade. Every illegal immigrant should be removed immediately upon arrival,” he said.

However, the Channel crossings began when Philp’s Conservative (Tory) Party was in office and grew progressively worse, with successive Conservative prime ministers showing no signs of making progress on the issue.

“As I predicted 5 years ago, unless we deport illegal migrants the invasion will be huge,” commented Reform Party leader Nigel Farage, who played a large part in exposing the Channel crisis and exposing the role of the French and British authorities in facilitating the crossings. “50,000 since our weak Prime Minister took office and there is no sign of it stopping,” he lamented.

Image by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street.

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