SMALL boat crossings broke winter records last week when 609 migrants reached our shores on just one day.
Thursday’s shocking milestone pushed up the annual total to a staggering 34,500, 19 per cent more than at the same point last year.
With asylum claims costing an average of £100,000 each, British taxpayers will now be picking up a £3.4billion bill just for processing these cases.
That is before the eye-watering impact on the NHS, social services and housing.
As we show in today’s paper, new arrivals have no difficulty landing illegal jobs, even if they are only delivering takeaways.
Today Yvette Cooper announces new measures to track the cash of traffickers, strengthen policing across Europe and kick out more of those who don’t belong here.
We welcome the Home Secretary’s actions.
But we’ve been promised results for years, and even if they work these moves will take an age to produce significant results.
Nobody is denying Sir Keir Starmer’s government inherited a migration mess from the Tories.
But by scrapping the genuine deterrent of the Rwanda scheme he has made beating the traffickers so much more difficult.
This issue will define our politics far into the future, as it is doing in America and Europe.
That is clear from the popularity of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
The British people demanded real change on this issue at the election and the PM needs to show real results.
If he fails to deliver, voters will never forgive him.
PRINCE Andrew should not be the only one facing tough questions over the Chinese spy known only as H6.
Today we publish alarming pictures of the businessman with former Prime Ministers Lord Cameron and Baroness May.
It is clear he burrowed his way into the very heart of the British establishment.
Now this individual has been identified as a security risk, he must be named as soon as possible.
All his contacts in politics and the Royal Family must be fully examined to check that his influence has not spread beyond the gullible Prince.
And Andrew must make clear where every penny comes from that allows him to keep paying for Royal Lodge.
We cannot afford to lower our guard one inch in dealing with the ruthless, snooping Beijing regime.
