Nigel Farage used PMQs today to tear into Keir Starmer’s record on small boats, days after a new record of 10,000 crossings was hit this year.
Mr Farage demanded that the PM finally admit his ‘smash the gangs’ rhetoric was merely an election slogan, and not a policy that will end Britain’s migration madness.
Taking to his feet in the Commons for the weekly session, the Reform UK leader said: “This year, 10,000 young, undocumented males have illegally crossed the English Channel into our country – a 40% increase on this time last year, many coming from cultures that are somewhat alien to ours.”
“They are being housed at a cost of many billions of pounds a year in hotels, and increasingly in private rented homes. The effect on communities is one of a sense of deep unfairness, actually bordering on resentment.
“In Runcorn alone, there are 750 of these young men in just in one constituency alone.
“Is it not time to admit that smash the gangs was nothing more than an election slogan, and not a policy. Isn’t it time to declare a national emergency and act accordingly?”
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