Farage blasts Labour's 19,000 migrant removals as 'feeble' pointing to 600,000 illegals in London

Nigel Farage says the UK is in 'very much deeper trouble than many care to admit'

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Susanna Siddell

By Susanna Siddell


Published: 11/02/2025

- 12:12

Labour is 'aping the rhetoric of Reform', the co-leader of the Greens said

Nigel Farage has slammed Labour's crackdown on migration as "feeble" - as he pointed to 600,000 illegal migrants living in London alone.

Yesterday, Keir Starmer's party bragged about removing 19,000 illegal migrants by releasing pictures of migrants' deportations.


The video, which is about two-and-a-half minutes long, shows multiple foreign nationals, some in restraints, being led onto a specially chartered aircraft.

It is believed that the Home Office carried out 5,074 enforced returned between July 5 last year and the end of January.

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The video, which is about two-and-a-half minutes long, shows multiple foreign nationals, some in restraints, being led onto a specially chartered aircraft

Home Office

As a result, since the General Election last year, the Home Office has claimed that a total of 18,987 unsuccessful asylum seekers, foreign criminals and illegal migrants have been removed from Britain and sent back to their home nation - the highest rate of returns in the UK since 2018.

Officials confirmed that 2,925 foreign national offenders have been deported.

"With an estimated 600,000 illegals in London alone, these numbers are feeble," he told the Daily Mail.

Research led by think tanks, campaign groups and universities, however, indicate that there are approximately 600,000 to 1.2million illegal migrants in Britain.

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GB News understands that the flight was due to head towards eastern Europe, although government officials have not confirmed the destination.

One by one, each migrant can be seen being guided from a bus parked along the runways and taken up the stairs to the plane, while the criminals were escorted by four security guards - as a few were spotted wearing some restraints around their wrists.

Around one in 10 of the deportations were "non-compliant" and required a level of restraint.

Labour has claimed that it has achieved its removal targets as they reveal the Home Office has deported almost 19,000 failed asylum seekers, foreign criminals and other immigration offenders since the General Election.

Home Office migrant deportations

Each offender was escorted by four security personnel as they were taken up the steps

Home Office

A number of chartered and scheduled flights carried illegal immigrants internationally to their home nations - across Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.

In response to the video's release, co-leader of the Green party Carla Denyer said: "This Labour government are plumbing new depths with their plan to broadcast footage of people being detained and deported.

"Those involved should be searching their consciences to ask if such breathtaking cruelty is really worth it all for the sake of aping the rhetoric of Reform."

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