Labour won’t solve the migrant crisis and civil unrest “will get worse” with a Keir Starmer-led approach to illegal Channel crossings, according to former Tory London mayoral candidate Susan Hall.
She joined Patrick Christys on GB News to discuss illegal immigration falling by 26 per cent while the asylum backlog grows to an eye-watering 118,000.
Frustrations over a perceived lack of control on immigration boiled over earlier this month with riots breaking out across the country.
Hall is concerned that we are yet to see the worst of the unrest.
Susan Hall is concerned we are yet to see the worst of the civil unrest
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“The Tories had a deterrent in place and we haven’t got one anymore”, she said.
“The people going for asylum, a third of those came over on boats. We have got to stop people coming over on the boats.
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“Labour came into power saying, ‘we are going to smash the gangs’, if it was that easy, we would have done it.
“It’s not that easy. They’ve come in saying they’re going to deal with it all - let’s wait and see.
“But, I actually don’t think they will. The one thing I do know is, we have got far too many people coming into the country at the moment and that is why there is so much civil unrest.
“It will get worse. It really will get worse.”
Keir Starmer's Labour won the election with more than 400 seats POOLPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he plans to cut the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats by taking tougher measures to “smash” people smuggling gangs.
The Labour Government made the bold decision to scrap the Rwanda policy, which sought to deter migrants from making the perilous trip across the Channel, soon after romping to victory in July’s General Election.
The plan would have seen migrants skulking into the UK via the backdoor shipped out to the African country.
It faced major blockades with the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) even going so far as halting flights as they were preparing to take off.
More than 18,000 small boat migrants have crossed Channel so far this yearPAStarmer appears to prefer a longer term approach by vowing to address the matter “at source”.
He last month announced £84m of funding for African and Middle Eastern countries.
The Labour leader said the money being put into health and education initiatives are a “vital part of gripping the migration crisis”.