Newslinks for Sunday 10th August 2025

Jenrick’s small-boats warning, as asylum hotel protests continue

“The small-boats crisis has made British women and girls less safe, Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick warns today. The top Tory admits he fears for his own three young daughters against a backdrop of illegal migrants with ‘medieval attitudes’ crossing the Channel. His comments follow a nationwide series of protests by angry parents outside hotels being used to house asylum seekers. In a candid article for The Mail on Sunday, Mr Jenrick states: ‘I certainly don’t want my children to share a neighbourhood with men from backward countries who broke into Britain illegally, and about whom we know next to nothing. And I don’t want anyone else’s family to have this forced on them either.’ Mr Jenrick, whose daughters are 14, 12 and ten, says the Channel crossings are now a ‘national security emergency’. It comes as: 

• An illegal immigrant from Sudan living in an asylum seeker hotel has been charged with the sexual assault of a woman last Monday in Warwickshire.

• Another migrant in a taxpayer-funded hotel in London has been arrested on suspicion of strangling a woman in public.

• Ministers will change the law to be able to ‘immediately’ deport foreign criminals – instead of waiting for them to serve out part of their sentence in England and Wales.

The spate of crimes perpetrated by illegal migrants in just two months has made some families fearful for their women and girls.” – Mail on Sunday

• Protestors chant ‘Keir Starmer is a w*****’ as tensions erupt at migrant hotel protests – Daily Express
• Britons take to streets at dozens of sites across UK as anger over crisis reaches fever pitch – GB News
• Migrant protesters face off amid concerns over women and girls’ safety – Sky News
• Warning over ‘agitators’ after rival protests clash outside Altrincham asylum seeker hotel – Manchester Evening News
• French accused of making a mockery of ‘one-in, one-out’ migrant deal after letting unsafe dinghy reach UK – The Sun
• Reform’s crime tsar Colin Sutton: ‘I’ll never forgive the Tories for what they did to policing’ – Daily Telegraph

Comment:

• I care more for my daughters’ safety than the rights of foreign criminals. That’s why I support every peaceful protest outside an asylum hotel – Robert Jenrick, Mail on Sunday
• Labour has abandoned border control in favour of political convenience – Chris Philp, Daily Express
• Revealed: Why this soft-touch asylum judge who sides with rapists and murderers is mocking all of us – Ross Clark, Daily Mail
• Keir Starmer’s small boats deal is about as robust as death-trap dinghies migrants use – Nick Ferrari, Daily Express
• We should help Gaza’s children, but that doesn’t mean resettling them in the UK – Robert Jenrick, Daily Telegraph

> Today: Tackling immigration isn’t about race, and the left need to stop branding people concerned about it as racists

Police arrest record numbers at Palestine Action protest

“Police arrested more than 450 protesters gathered in central London on Saturday to support Palestine Action, the activist group banned by the government as a terrorist organisation. The protesters openly flouted terrorism laws by descending on Parliament Square in Westminster at 1pm to hold up handwritten placards bearing the slogan: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” The highest number of arrests previously made by the Metropolitan Police at a single protest event is thought to be 339 during the poll tax riots in 1990. By 9pm, the force, assisted by scores of officers drafted in from across Britain, had detained 466 people for supporting a proscribed organisation.” – The Times

• Police arrests at Palestine Action protest as demonstrators bring chaos to London after group banned – The Sun
• Ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg among hundreds held after Palestine Action protest – Daily Telegraph
• Protesters presented themselves as peaceniks, but ugliness lurked below the surface – Daily Telegraph

Comment:

• ‘Charges must stop this ragbag’ – Lord Walney, The Sun
• To restore order, London now needs ‘zero tolerance’ policing – Janet Daley, Daily Telegraph

Trump’s Alaska summit with Putin

“The US’s special envoy to the Middle East may have misinterpreted Vladimir Putin‘s terms for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine as he worked to set up a face-to-face with President Trump, according to media reports. Steve Witkoff met with Russian president at the Kremlin for about three hours on Wednesday, after which Trump praised his negotiator for making ‘great progress’. However, a report from BILD, a German outlet, suggests that Witkoff was under the impression that when Putin demanded a ‘peaceful withdrawal’ from Kherson and Zaporizhia, he meant that he wanted Russian soldiers to withdraw. According to insiders, Putin actually meant he wanted Ukrainian forces to give up these tactically important cities.  ‘Witkoff doesn’t know what he’s talking about,’ a Ukrainian official told BILD. It is understood that Russia is refusing to budge on its demand for control of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Kherson and Crimea. It comes as Trump officially set Friday August 15 as the day he and Putin will meet in Alaska to discuss a negotiated settlement to the war, which has stretched on for over three-and-a-half years. It will be Putin’s first time stepping inside the US for a decade. ‘It’s complicated, nothing easy,’ Trump told reporters ahead of the announcement. ‘It’s very complicated but we’re going to get some back and we’re going to get some switched.’ On the day Trump confirmed he and Putin would be meeting, two people were killed in a Russian strike on a civilian bus in Kherson and two others were killed in a Russian FPV drone strike on a car. Once news of Trump-Putin summit emerged, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that ‘decisions without Ukraine’ would not bring peace to the region… After Zelensky’s comments it emerged that the White House is considering inviting him to Alaska. A senior US official told NBC News that an invite to Zelensky is ‘being discussed’.” – Daily Mail

• Zelenskyy looks to European allies to stop handover of territory to Russia – Financial Times
• Vance and Lammy host Ukraine talks, as Zelensky warns against US-Russia summit without Kyiv – BBC News
• Putin has received yet another gift from Trump – Daily Telegraph
• Inside Trump and Putin’s relationship, their power moves, and how the Russian leader broke the ‘alpha bro code’ – Daily Mail

Comment:

• The West must pressure Putin to end illegal war… and that means there can be no place for Russian oil on European soil – Priti Patel, The Sun
• Trump has betrayed Ukraine, making the world immeasurably more dangerous – Daniel Hannan, Daily Telegraph

News in brief:

• Should Trump walk away from Ukraine-Russia negotiations? – Jennifer Kavanagh, Unherd
• Can ‘China Studies’ still be trusted? – Ian Williams, The Spectator
• Resoured relationships – Owen Polley, The Critic
• Why the American right turned on Israel – Lee Siegel, The New Statesman