Farage Slams Starmer Over Channel Migrant Crisis – Guido Fawkes

Farage Slams Starmer Over Channel Migrant Crisis

Reform’s Nigel Farage used PMQs to skewer Starmer over Labour’s hollow “smash the gangs” soundbite as the number of illegal Channel crossings this year sailed past 10,000 – a 40% surge on the same period last year. Farage blasted:

“Is it not time to admit that ‘smash the gangs’ was nothing more than an election slogan and not a policy. And isn’t it time to declare a national emergency?”

Rather than echoing Yvette Cooper’s now-routine excuse of “good weather” causing the crisis, Starmer swerved the question instead mocking Farage for “taking advice” from Liz Truss following reports of a recent meetings between the pair. A pertinent issue on the eve of the locals…