Labour aren’t telling you that a large chunk of this black hole is to pay for illegal immigrants, says Patrick Christys

It turns out a large chunk of that is the bill for illegal immigrants, and that problem is set to get worse, not better.

The Home Office has been massively overspending when it comes to illegal immigration.

Over the last three years, the Home Office estimated it would cost the taxpayer £320m to handle asylum, border control, visas and passport operations.

It cost £7.9bn. That is an overspend of £7.6bn. Whoopsie.

The initial estimates of this year’s cost are roughly £6.4bn but just look at the numbers coming across the Channel now and the total lack of a plan to deal with them.

We’ve had 7,000 arrivals since Keir Starmer became Prime Minister, more than 20,000 this year, the queue in Calais is getting bigger, not smaller.

There’s no deterrent anymore so every single person who arrives will be able to claim asylum, then appeal, then appeal again, we’re going to have to build new sites to accommodate these people - the actual cost of this is going to be eye-watering.

What they’re not telling you is that a large chunk of that black hole is to pay for illegal immigrants.

Another large chunk of that is the £3.1bn Labour borrowed to pay the unions, by the way.

But when this miserable budget lands, and there are tax rises, there’s no winter fuel payments for some pensioners, capital gains tax will probably goes up so you don’t get much of a return on your investments and inheritance tax probably goes up - so the money that your loved ones, or you, have worked all your lives for to pass down to the next generation is ripped away from you…

Just so we can give it to people who have come to Britain illegally.

Sir Keir Starmer can shake the hands of as many European leaders as he wants.

Maybe he should press the flesh of a few British people and see how they feel about that.