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Sir Keir Starmer's claim that there is "lots of housing" available for asylum seekers in Britain has been slammed as "madness" by critics. The Prime Minister was asked for his response to local councils struggling to allocate housing to homeless people while competing with the Home Office's search for asylum seeker accommodation. Replying to the concerns raised by the Liaison Committee, made up of senior MPs who chair various Commons select committees, Sir Keir said: "I know, which is why I am so furious at the last Government for leaving tens of thousands of asylum seekers unprocessed, with nowhere to...

Sadiq Khan today hit out at Keir Starmer's plan to cut the number of foreign students coming to Britain in his latest clash with the Labour leadership. The London mayor used a visit to Ghana to say UK universities should remain 'open' to overseas students, after a new immigration clampdown was announced in May. It will see the amount of time post-graduate students can spend in the UK after completing their course cut from two years to 18 months. A new levy on income that universities generate from international students could also be introduced. It follows changes introduced by the...

Nigel Farage has launched a scathing attack on the UK's immigration system - and warned Sir Keir Starmer he will be held accountable if Labour fails to get a grip on rising migration numbers. The Reform UK leader and MP for Clacton said voters were "sick and tired" of mass migration, which he claimed was placing huge pressure on the NHS, housing, welfare and policing. He said: "For years, the broadcast media have pushed the narrative that mass migration is a net benefit. Skilled migrants, we have long been told, will assimilate, strengthen our economy and drive innovation. What we've...

Keir Starmer has been branded "weak" after migrants in Calais said they would not stop coming to the UK despite a new asylum deal between France and the UK. The pilot initiative was designed to reduce the number of small boat crossings by returning illegal arrivals to France in exchange for legally processed asylum seekers with family ties in the UK. But within hours of the announcement, the Express witnessed hundreds of migrants gathering in northern France, preparing to make the journey. Some were already attempting to board inflatable dinghies, while others had managed to launch boats that ultimately reached...

Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron will announce a “one in, one out” migration deal on Thursday that will involve the UK accepting some cross-Channel asylum seekers but returning others to France. The two leaders are expected to cap the French president’s three-day state visit to the UK with a press conference in London at which they will announce the new plan to tackle small boat crossings. Officials were still in talks over the details of the plan on Thursday morning, including when it would begin, but other hurdles such as the opposition of other European countries are understood to have...

After a year in office, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government is in rough waters. On July 1st the prime minister abandoned cuts to Britain’s welfare budget, after a large rebellion of Labour MPs forced him to gut his proposed legislation. The government’s standing in opinion polls is poor. Sir Keir’s promise to bring stability after the years of tumult that followed the Brexit referendum of 2016 looks hollow. He would doubtless ask voters to ignore the drama in the House of Commons, and look at the progress he has made on improving their lives. We have done just that. To...

Two senior Labour MPs have suggested the prime minister may have to go within months if the government continues to perform poorly. Both warned that, if Labour performs badly in next May's elections across Wales, Scotland and London, it could mark the end of his time in Downing Street. Coates added: "The level of unhappiness and despair in parts of the Labour Party is so striking that right now, on the first anniversary, I am hearing from ministers in government that Starmer might have to go in months." Reform UK is surging in the polls in Wales, while Labour faces...

Sir Keir Starmer has been put on notice of a fresh Labour rebellion over the Government's 'family farm tax'. More than 40 Labour MPs are said to be considering a bid to water down looming changes to agricultural and business inheritance tax relief. It comes after the Prime Minister performed a trio of embarrassing U-turns in recent weeks. Sir Keir has reversed his position on axing the winter fuel payment for millions of pensioners, a national grooming gangs inquiry, and welfare cuts. This has left Labour rebels feeling emboldened that they can force the Government into further policy changes. According...

Donald Trump is set to make a state visit to Britain this year - possibly as early as September - as Sir Keir Starmer lays out the red carpet for the US president. But No10 has been forced to deny claims that it over-ruled the wishes of the King after Trump vowed to make Canada the US's '51st state'. The Manu Regia, the hand-signed formal invitation from the monarch to Trump for a second state visit, was hand-delivered last week by British representatives from the Washington embassy to the White House. Sir Keir invited Trump to Britain when he went...

Sir Keir Starmer’s personal polling ratings are so awful that some Labour backbenchers are beginning to question whether he can survive until the next election. His first year in office – which he’ll mark next week with a major climbdown on welfare reform – has been catastrophic. Of the prime ministers since Thatcher, only Gordon Brown had a worse net approval rating at the same stage in his premiership. On current polling, Labour is heading for a single term and a devastating defeat. It is only the split on the Right – with Right-leaning voters currently torn between Reform and...

Four decades ago I was sitting having a cup of tea in Bramerton Street in Chelsea, just off the King's Road. It was the home of Alan Jay Lerner, author of Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot, and much else. Alan was not as wealthy as he'd been two decades earlier, because he'd carelessly acquired seven ex-wives and was in the umpteenth year of a long-running dispute with the IRS. But I couldn't understand why, as a man awash in Oscars and Tonys and whatnot, he chose to live not in New York but in London, when...

Immigration is killing Europe, warned U.S. President Donald Trump as he arrived in northern Britain for a four-day visit to Scotland. President Donald Trump touched down at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland on Friday evening and briefly delivered on-camera remarks before travelling to his Turnberry golf resort, in which he warned of Europe despoiling its natural beauty with wind turbines and destroying itself with mass migration. While he kicked off with wind energy — President Trump has objected to green energy products marring the natural beauty of his ancestral Scotland for many years — his most strident comments of the...

US President Donald Trump has flown into Scotland to meet with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and talk trade, as the UK seeks to refine its agreement with the US and reduce tariffs. President Trump will spend the weekend at his Turnberry golf course, which will be patrolled by an estimated 5,000 officers. Planned anti-Trump protests have triggered the UK’s biggest police operation since the death of the Queen.

Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that he must stop the use of asylum hotels sooner than promised. Jo White, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw, leads the caucus of 40 MPs in the party’s traditional heartlands, where Labour is under increasing pressure to clear the backlog amid pressure from Reform UK among voters. Last week, violence erupted in Epping after the alleged sexual assault of a local 14-year-old girl, while protests have been held at several other sites across the country in opposition to asylum seekers being housed in hotels at the public’s expense. The Government has vowed to end...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has warned that unless change is instituted rapidly, Britain will soon succumb to complete societal collapse. “We live increasingly in a lawless Britain… most people think that Britain has become lawless”, Farage remarked Monday at a press conference to launch a new law and order policy platform. “We’re actually facing, in many parts of our country, nothing short of societal collapse,” Farage warned, adding “People are scared to go out to the shops, scared to let their kids out. That is a society that is degraded, and it’s happening very, very rapidly.” Farage further suggested...

It is becoming harder by the day to pretend this is all normal. Epping, a leafy Essex town not known for rabble-rousing, has suddenly become a bellwether. It is not extremists making the noise, but mothers: ordinary, decent, quietly exhausted. One protestor’s placard said it best: “I’m not far-Right. I’m worried about my kids.” Eight days. That’s how long it took from Hadush Kebatu’s illegal arrival on our shores to his alleged assault of a local teenage girl. This criminal charge has pierced through the political haze, not because it is an anomaly, but because it is no longer rare....

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of 'trying to police opinions' by assembling an elite team of police officers to monitor growing anti-migrant sentiment online. Detectives are set to be drawn from forces around the country as the Government scrambles to crack down on potential violence by flagging up early signs of civil unrest on social media. It comes amid fears Britain could face another summer of disorder just 12 months after a wave of riots sparked scenes of chaos following the Southport murders. Earlier this month, demonstrations first flared up outside The Bell Hotel, in Epping, Essex, after an...

Sir Keir Starmer risks clashing with Donald Trump over ending the war in Gaza when they meet on Monday during the US President's visit to Scotland. Trump has already said Hamas does not want peace, but Sir Keir will want to press the president on whether more can be done to stop the conflict in the Middle East. It comes as Trump continues his short visit to Scotland to open a second 18-hole course at his estate in Aberdeenshire. Sir Keir will travel to Scotland on Monday for one-on-one talks with Trump, which will revolve around how Britons and Americans...

King Charles FLIPS OUT as Starmer ARRESTS Farmers for ‘Non-Compliance’ Britain ERUPTS! Farmers protesting inheritance tax and property reassessments, protests spreading, mass arrests for "non-compliance," King Charlie outraged and calls Starmer and bawls him out. Two-tier doubles down and makes arrests higgledy piggledy. Grass roots resistance grows and is now called "The Freedom Front". Nigel Farage gaining points, galvanizing the resistance. Protests now in cities, including London... Transcript linked below video

Woken by police to be told that his car had been damaged, Ufuoma Odoh wasn’t prepared for the scene that confronted him. The Volvo XC40, parked on the street around the corner from his London flat, was missing its rear windscreen – smashed by a television hurled out of the window of a nearby hotel room. In the past, such loutish antics were the preserve of rich, drug-addled rock stars. Today, it’s just part of the day-to-day reality of living alongside one of the many hotels now given over to asylum seekers.