Newslinks for Monday 9th June 2025

Migrant hotel bills take every penny in tax from city size of Manchester

“Britain’s £4.7billion annual bill to keep migrants in hotels and look after them takes every penny of tax from 582,000 workers. The shocking number revealed today is equivalent to the population of Manchester. Statistics expert Jamie Jenkins, who did the research, said: “This isn’t just unsustainable. It’s outrageous. A government that borrows billions each year, can’t control borders, and taxes its citizens to pay for hotel rooms and housing for people who’ve just arrived is not working for the British public.” – The Sun

• Visa scam that makes a mockery of PM’s pledge on migration: Undercover Mail investigation exposes fixers who take cash to help unskilled workers fiddle the system – Daily Mail
• Fury as taxpayers forking out £1million a week to migrant-chasing lawyers – The Sun
• Keir Starmer’s citizenship plans ‘will increase illegal migrants’ – The Times

Comment:

• Migrants, lawyers, smuggling gangs and the French cash in – while Brits are left to foot the bill – The Sun says
• Labour can’t preach about hard choices while spending billions on migrant hotels – Harry Cole, The Sun
• If we don’t police our borders, we will police our people – Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph

Reform make their pitch in Wales

“A Reform government would allow coal mines to reopen in Wales to revive British steel-making, Nigel Farage will say today. In a major speech, the Reform leader will put coal-mining at the centre of the party’s plans for reopening the Port Talbot Steelworks if it wins future elections. He will accuse Labour of having ‘betrayed Wales’s great heritage’ after the plant, once one of the world’s largest, closed its last blast furnace last October.” – Daily Mail

• Nigel Farage vows to give young people opportunity to learn trades like welding and robotics in new plan – The Sun
• Nigel Farage promises locals will be first in line for social housing if Reform wins Wales – Daily Express
• Nigel Farage to mine south Wales for votes – The Times

Comment:

Reeves vs Cooper in spending row where police come out top – and Chancellor expected to come out fighting against Farage

“Police will receive an above-inflation boost as senior ministers took negotiations over the spending review down to the wire. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is expected to set out real-terms increases to police budgets every year, forcing cuts to other areas of the Home Office, in a review on Wednesday setting out spending for the next three years…Reeves will seek to make a virtue of spending restraint by using Labour’s fiscal discipline to attack Nigel Faragefor “fantasy economics”.” – The Times

• Rachel Reeves sent warning by Yvette Cooper as civil war rages over spending plan – Daily Express
• Policing is broken, top officers warn Reeves – Daily Telegraph
• Police win funding battle with Rachel Reeves after warning to cut services – The Sun
• ​​Rayner and Reeves reach eleventh-hour truce in spending battle – The i

Comment:

• Only Tories can tell the truth about debt – Matthew Parris, The Times
• It’s no wonder that the middle classes are fleeing Rachel Reeves’s anti-wealth island – Robert Jenrick, Daily Telegraph
• Chancellor should focus spending on functions only government can provide – The Times View
• Beware the employee activists threatening to bring down British business – Laura Farris and Lord Andrew Cooper, Daily Telegraph

> Today: Andrew Griffith: Labour’s business problem is very much a Conservative opportunity

Mark Littlewood: It really is time Conservatives accepted the truth behind the ‘Truss mini-budget’

News in brief:

• The battle of the Channel has been fought – and lost – Jonathan Miller, The Spectator
• The loophole in the assisted dying bill that no one wants to talk about – Chelsea Roff, The New Statesman
• The scandal of Portsmouth’s broken homes – Greg Noone, Unherd
• Britain is not ready for the AI revolution – Steve Loftus, The Critic