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SHOCK model shows Reform snatching 81 seats in Labour bloodbath – full seat breakdown REVEALED
Reform UK would win 81 seats if an election was held tomorrow while Labour would lose 128 seats, a sophisticated poll aggregating model has found.
The Nowcast Model, which is based on recent GB wide polling, is weighted for recency as well as historic pollster accuracy.
It found Nigel Farage’s party would soak up 22.7 per cent of the national vote, just 0.3 per cent behind the Conservatives.
Badenoch’s party would gain 22 seats in a moderate comeback, while the SNP would triumph in Scotland with 26 seats gained.
Seats that would change if an election was held tomorrow according to the Nowcast model
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The result would see Reform UK sail past the Liberal Democrats current seat haul of 72 after Ed Davey’s party enjoyed excellent results in July 2024.
Despite Reform’s claims to be the official opposition, the model leaves the party some 60 seats adrift of the Conservatives.
Yet with Labour’s majority reduced so heavily, no party would have enough seats to form a government, meaning a coalition would have to form.
This would most likely be a Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition as their combined seat haul totals 354.
A Reform/Conservative coalition, as unlikely as that is to form, would only have 224 seats.
It comes as economic turmoil continues to dog the Labour government with Prime Minister Keir Starmer forced to defend his Chancellor.
Reeves herself is also deeply unpopular for raising taxes by £40billion and increasing government borrowing, fiscal plans that now seem foolish as the economy stagnates.
Other decisions driving unpopularity are the resignation of Tulip Siddiq, Starmer’s anti-corruption minister, who was named in a high-profile corruption case involving her aunt, the ex-Bangladeshi dictator.
After Starmer’s repeated attacks on Sunak for Tory sleaze, Tulip’s resignation is a major blow.
Also rumbling on in the background is the chaotic surrender of the Chagos Islands, rumoured to cost £9billion to British taxpayers.
These events all come after Labour got off to a terrible start in government, enacting unpopular decisions like stripping winter fuel payments, slapping farmers with inheritance tax and denying WASPI women compensation.
High profile Labour figures have seen their polling ratings drop in record time.
It appears the main benefactor is Nigel Farage. With the Tory party still rebuilding after its drubbing, Farage is hoovering up support with his party’s newcomer status proving tempting too thousands.
Here are the seats the Nowcast model has predicted Reform would win if an election was held tomorrow.
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St Austell and Newquay / 2024 MP: Noah Law
South East Cornwall / 2024 MP: Anna Gelderd
Plymouth Moor View / 2024 MP: Fred Thomas
Isle of Wight East / 2024 MP: Joe Robertson
Bridgwater / 2024 MP: Ashley Fox
Havant / 2024 MP: Alan Mak
Folkestone and Hythe / 2024 MP: Tony Vaughan
Dover and Deal / 2024 MP: Mike Tapp
Ashford / 2024 MP: Sojan Joseph
Chatham and Aylesford / 2024 MP: Tristan Osborne
Rochester and Strood / 2024 MP: Lauren Edwards
Dartford / 2024 MP: Jim Dickson
Gillingham and Rainham / 2024 MP: Naushabah Khan
Sittingbourne and Sheppey / 2024 MP: Kevin McKenna
Bexleyheath and Crayford / 2024 MP: Daniel Francis
Thurrock / 2024 MP: Jen Craf
Castle Point / 2024 MP: Rebecca Harris
Rayleigh and Wickford / 2024 MP: Mark Francois
Basildon and Billericay / 2024 MP: Richard Holden
Dagenham and Rainham / 2024 MP: Margaret Mullane
Hornchurch and Upminster / 2024 MP: Julia Lopez
Harlow / 2024 MP: Chris Vince
Lowestoft / 2024 MP: Jess Asato
South West Norfolk / 2024 MP: Terry Jermy
Halesowen / 2024 MP: Alex Ballinger
Dudley / 2024 MP: Sonia Kuma
Nuneaton / 2024 MP: Jodie Gosling
Tipton and Wednesbury / 2024 MP: Antonia Bance
Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North / 2024 MP: Liam Byrne
North Warwickshire and Bedworth / 2024 MP: Rachel Taylor
Walsall and Bloxwich / 2024 MP: Valerie Vaz
Cannock Chase / 2024 MP: Josh Newbury
Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes / 2024 MP: Melanie Onn
Sherwood Forest / 2024 MP: Michelle Welsh
Tamworth / 2024 MP: Sarah Edwards
Burton and Uttoxeter / 2024 MP: Jacob Collier
Derby South / 2024 MP: Baggy Shanker
Mansfield / 2024 MP: Steve Yemm
Rotherham / 2024 MP: Sarah Champion
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough / 2024 MP: John Healey
Barnsley South / 2024 MP: Stephanie Peacock
Bolsover / 2024 MP: Natalie Fleet
Stoke-on-Trent Central / 2024 MP: Gareth Snell
Stoke-on-Trent North / 2024 MP: David Williams
Amber Valley / 2024 MP: Linsey Farnsworth
Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme / 2024 MP: Lee Pitcher
Normanton and Hemsworth / 2024 MP: Jon Trickett
Barnsley North / 2024 MP: Dan Jarvis
Kingston upon Hull East / 2024 MP: Karl Turner
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley / 2024 MP: Yvette Cooper
Spen Valley / 2024 MP: Kim Leadbeater
Bradford South / 2024 MP: Judith Cummins
Halifax / 2024 MP: Kate Dearden
Makerfield / 2024 MP: Josh Simons
Ashton-under-Lyne / 2024 MP: Angela Rayner
Bolton South and Walkden / 2024 MP: Yasmin Qureshi
Scarborough and Whitby / 2024 MP: Alison Hume
Bolton North East / 2024 MP: Kirith Entwistle
Blackpool South / 2024 MP: Chris Webb
Blackpool North and Fleetwood / 2024 MP: Lorraine Beavers
Hyndburn / 2024 MP: Sarah Smith
Heywood and Middleton North / 2024 MP: Elsie Blundell
Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton / 2024 MP: Jim McMahon
Oldham East and Saddleworth / 2024 MP: Debbie Abrahams
Hartlepool / 2024 MP: Jonathan Brash
Easington / 2024 MP: Grahame Morris
Sunderland Central / 2024 MP: Lewis Atkinson
Houghton and Sunderland South / 2024 MP: Bridget Phillipson
Washington and Gateshead South / 2024 MP: Sharon Hodgson
South Shields / 2024 MP: Emma Lewell-Buck
Burnley / 2024 MP: Oliver Ryan
North Durham / 2024 MP: Luke Akehurst
Bishop Auckland / 2024 MP: Sam Rushworth
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Llanelli / 2024 MP: Nia Griffith
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr / 2024 MP: Steve Witherden
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His supporters cheer while illegal migrants scream in rage
As Donald Trump swore his oath of office on Monday, his supporters cheered throughout the American capital.
Not everyone is happy with the new president, however. During an immigration raid an illegal Haitian migrant with 18 previous convictions reportedly told police, “F*** Trump, Biden forever!”.
With the dawn of Trump comes his long-awaited policy of mass deportations of immigrants.
In his inauguration address, Trump promised to deport “millions and millions” of illegal aliens.
Within hours of his swearing in, he began to deliver on his core promises by signing dozens of executive orders on issues ranging from immigration to energy.
He banned DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programmes across government, ended affirmative action (racial discrimination in favour of ethnic minorities), and declared a national energy on the US southern border.
One of the more controversial orders ended birthright citizenship for illegal migrants and those on temporary visas, meaning the children of illegal migrants are no longer given automatic citizenship. This order is set to be challenged in court as some argue that birthright citizenship is enshrined in the constitution.
Trump’s famed mass deportations programme also began within hours of his taking office, with immigration raids being launched in Chicago and Boston.
Under Joe Biden’s four years in the White House, more than eight million illegal migrants entered the United States according to estimates, though some experts suggest the number could be much higher.
Immigration, like in 2016, was one of the major reasons Donald Trump won the White House.
On Monday the freezing conditions and tight security in Washington DC did not deter the new president’s most hardcore fans who turned the usually liberal city into a MAGA heartland.
Trump’s supporters could hardly contain their excitement as their president returned to the Oval Office for the second time.
For more than half of the country, Trump’s inauguration represented a return to American exceptionalism: to expansionism, masculine energy, strong borders and self-confidence.
After witnessing murders being committed by illegal migrants, including, infamously, against the young Laken Riley, millions of Americans have now been filled with hope that they will be deported. Dreams of deportations are not simply a bigoted reaction to ethnic minorities, they are a shared desire to keep Americans safe.
Britain, where there are an estimated 1.2 million illegal migrants, could learn from Donald Trump. One in twelve people in London are reportedly in the country illegally, and the country is unified in believing that levels of immigration are too high.
In both America and Britain, the public are furious that illegal migration has been allowed to occur in record numbers. Such anger may have led to the fall of both Biden and Sunak’s regimes, though Keir Starmer does not see immigration in the same way as Donald Trump.
Under Trump’s leadership, the United States could be set to enter a period of radical transformation. Alongside his immigration crackdown, the president has announced plans for sweeping economic reforms aimed at reinvigorating American industry and reducing reliance on foreign manufacturing.
His administration has already signaled its intent to withdraw from trade agreements deemed “unfair” to American workers, with whispers of a renewed focus on domestic production under the slogan “Made in America.” This economic nationalism, while energising his voter base, has sparked concerns among business leaders who fear retaliatory tariffs and disrupted supply chains.
Trump’s energy policies are also shaping up to be as contentious as his immigration measures. On his first day back in office, the president ordered the immediate expansion of domestic oil and gas drilling, promising to make the United States “energy independent within months.”
Social policies, too, are poised for dramatic change. Trump’s ban on DEI programmes has sent shockwaves through corporate America, with companies scrambling to understand the implications. Critics have accused Trump of stoking cultural divides, while his administration claims such measures are necessary to restore meritocracy. Universities, long seen as bastions of progressive ideology, are likely to face increased scrutiny under new federal guidelines discouraging affirmative action.
Beyond the policy announcements, the mood in Washington reflects a nation deeply divided. Protesters gathered in cities across the country during Trump’s inauguration, denouncing what they called his “authoritarian” approach. The Capitol building itself remains under heavy security, a stark reminder of the turbulent political climate that has come to define modern America.
For Trump’s supporters, however, this is the beginning of what they see as a national revival. The president’s focus on immigration, energy, and economic sovereignty reflects a return to priorities they feel were neglected under Biden. While critics accuse Trump of authoritarianism, his backers argue that he is merely delivering on promises that resonate with millions.
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Illegal migrants coming to Britain should be ‘put in camps on a west coast island’, Lowe claims
Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has called for a “national emergency” to be declared over illegal migration, suggesting authorities should “round people up and deport” those in the country unlawfully.
Speaking on GB News, Lowe urged for a hardline approach similar to measures being taken in the United States.
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Keir Starmer urged to ‘declare national emergency’ on illegal migration after shock London figures: ‘Deport, deport, deport!’
Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has called for a “national emergency” to be declared over illegal migration, suggesting authorities should “round people up and deport” those in the country unlawfully.
Speaking on GB News, Lowe urged for a hardline approach similar to measures being taken in the United States.
“We have to declare a national emergency, rather like Trump’s doing, and we have to then be actually prepared to take hard decisions and deport, deport, deport,” he said.
The Reform UK politician criticised the current Labour Government’s handling of immigration, claiming the Prime Minister is “up to his neck in this”.
Rupert Lowe demanded that the Prime Minister declare a ‘national emergency’ on illegal migration
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“If it means we have to round people up and deport, and that’s what we have to do,” Lowe stated.
A confidential report commissioned by Thames Water has revealed that as many as one in 12 Londoners may be living in the capital illegally.
The study, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, suggests up to 585,000 illegal migrants are currently residing in London.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp called the reported figures “deeply alarming”.
Lowe outlined proposals for dealing with illegal migrants, suggesting they should be housed in “tented camps” on a UK island.
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“Put them on a West Coast island with a limited, uncomfortable tented camp and minimal food, and encourage them then to go back to where they came from and apply to come back legally,” he said.
The Reform UK MP claimed most arrivals are economic migrants rather than asylum seekers.
He criticised the current immigration system as “weak,” suggesting much of the process relies on applicants’ own statements.
Lowe expressed concern about voting rights, stating: “What worries me is, after six years if we’re not very careful, these people have full voting rights.”
Lowe told GB News that migrants could be housed on a ‘UK island’
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He pointed to Australia’s approach as a model to follow. “The Australians have shown us what to do. You only have to look. They stop the boats coming, and then people realise it’s a waste of time, spending whatever it is 500 euros to get here,” he said.
Lowe called for Britain to exit various international treaties beyond the ECHR to “take back control of our own borders.”
A Home Office spokesman said: “This Government is strengthening global partnerships and rooting out the criminal gangs who profit from small boat crossings which threaten lives.
“We have also removed 16,400 illegal migrants in just six months, the highest figure in half a decade, making it clear that those who arrive illegally will be returned.”
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Reform UK MPs Lee Anderson and Richard Tice demand death penalty debate after Axel Rudakubana handed ‘unduly lenient’ 52-year sentence
Reform UK MPs have ramped up calls for a debate around the death penalty after Southport’s remorseless killer Axel Rudakubana was handed an “unduly lenient” 52-year-sentence.
Ashfield MP Lee Anderson, Boston & Skegness MP Richard Tice and Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe all demanded a conversation about the reintroduction of capital punishment.
Sharing an image of a hangman’s noose, Anderson said: “This is what is required.”
Tice added: “I don’t think we should be afraid of having a national debate on important big issues like this. I think that many people in the country would like at least a debate.”
Lowe also claimed that it was now “time for a national debate” on the use of capital punishment “in exceptional circumstances”.
The death penalty was only officially abolished in Britain in 1998.
However, Peter Anthony and Gwynne Owen Evans were the last people executed in the UK back in 1964.
Following Rudakubana’s sentencing yesterday, a petition was launched on the Houses of Parliament website demanding the abolition of whole life orders and reintroduction of the death penalty.
Judge Mr Justice Goose was unable to hand Rudakubana a whole life order because he was just nine days away from turning 18 at the time of the horrific attack last July.
Southport’s Labour MP Patrick Hurley said the 52-year sentence was “not severe enough” and asked Attorney General to review the sentence as “unduly lenient”.
Attorney General Lord Hermer and Solicitor General Lucy Rigby have 28 days to decide whether to refer the sentence to the Court of Appeal.
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‘Shut up!’ Badenoch instructs ‘unhelpful’ ex-PM Truss to keep quiet
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has instructed her former Cabinet colleague Liz Truss to keep quiet during a meeting last week.
Speaking to her Shadow Cabinet, the Leader of the Opposition suggested the former Prime Minister should “shut up for a while” and “stop making unhelpful interventions”.
Despite four sources confirming comments were made about Truss, Badenoch’s spokesman said she did not use the phrase “shut up”.
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Patrick Christys: I love Great Britain, but our politicians and authorities are making it unbearable
I love Great Britain. But today, Great Britain hit rock bottom.
The walking, talking advert for the death penalty, Axel Rudakubana, was sentenced for the Southport massacre.
He showed no remorse. He kicked off in the dock. And he is evil personified.
But how was he allowed to do this? Caught with a knife 10 times, reeported to Preevent 3 times, he called ChildLine and said he wanted to kill someone, they called the police, the police went round and didn’t do anything.
Patrick Christys says Britain HAS to get a grip
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The authorities have blood on their hands.
But as Britain’s biggest monster began his 52-year prison sentence today, I looked around at the other news.
A man in a balaclava allegedly stabbed five people in Croydon today.
Last night when I got home I saw about a stabbing spree in Plymouth – a 40-year-old woman died. The suspect is still on the run.
Look at The Sun today – A 12-year-old boy was walking through a park in Birmingham and was stabbed in the stomach.
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of his murder.
Yesterday, a man admitted killing his ex-girlfriend and her sister with a crossbow and their mother with a knife after he broke into their home.
Paedophiles caught with hundreds or even thousands of indecent images of children are not being sent to prison. They’re allowed back out onto the streets to just live their lives.
This is ridiculous.
A man was caught with a loaded AK-47 in Leeds – he had 30 rounds of live ammunition. He got 5 years in prison, he’ll be out in two and a half.
We’ve got illegal immigrants running rampant – one in 12 people in London are here illegally.
Just today an asylum seeker driving an uninsured vehicle was sent to prison after he smashed into a nurse and broke her spine three weeks before her wedding.
That’s before I’ve mentioned the catalogue of asylum seeker rapists that we have over here.
There was one bit from today’s sentencing of Axel Rudakubana that stood out to me as well.
The judge there, despite everything we heard in court today, at pains to say Axel Rudakubana wasn’t to blame for the summer disorder.
Well I think he was, now I’m not condoning the torching of a migrant hotel or any of that stuff but whether Rudakubana is to blame or not is irrelevant – it’s ALL of it, isn’t it!
It’s all of it. Every day we see news stories like the ones I’ve rattled off here.
Every day we get damning figures, like this morning the Home Office revealing the number of foreign national offenders living in the UK has tripled in the last seven years.
Or two thirds of sexual assaults in London being committed by foreigners.
It’s all of it! It’s every day. And it’s so avoidable. Don’t let wrong’uns into the country. Deport the ones we have now. Don’t miss all the warning signs from a lunatic like Axel Rudakubana who has literally screamed the fact he was going to be a serial killer from the age of about 13.
Our politicians should hang their heads in shame for all the crime we have but our authorities should do for everything.
I love Great Britain – but they are making it unbearable.
We have to get a grip.
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Chopper's Political Podcast: UK terrorism agency needs reform says Tom Tugendhat after Rudakubana failings
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Former security minister urges Government to ‘improve’ Home Office scheme ‘not scrap it’
Home Office’s Prevent programme should be “improved” not scrapped, says former Security minister Tom Tugendhat as Axel Rudakubana was jailed for 52 years for attacking and killing children in Southport last year.
The Government has launched a review of the Prevent programme after it emerged Rudakubana was referred to Prevent three times between 2019 and 2021, yet went on to commit his bloody murders in July last year.
Tugendhat – who was Security minister between 2022 and 2024 – was asked on Chopper’s Political Podcast whether he felt that Prevent should be axed.
He replied: “No, I wouldn’t. I would improve it.”
Home Office’s Prevent programme should be “improved” not scrapped, says former Security minister Tom Tugendhat as Axel Rudakubana was jailed for 52 years for attacking and killing children in Southport last year
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Tugendhat urged ministers to implement the recommendations in a review of Prevent by Sir William Shawcross.
He told today’s Chopper’s Political Podcast: “I would look at the Shawcross report – there’s a huge amount in there that we were able to get done. And there’s bits that we weren’t able to get done because they take time to introduce.
“And part of it is about making sure you’re ‘triaging’ properly. So you’re getting stuff in line in the appropriate way and you’re responding appropriately.”
Tugendhat – who was Security minister between 2022 and 2024 – was asked on Chopper’s Political Podcast whether he felt that Prevent should be axed
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He added: “We need to get better at identifying triggers, as it were, on people.
“And when people have radicalised themselves or been radicalised to find out where we’re going.
“That’s why the Prevent aspect is so important.”
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Ben Habib warns Britain risks ‘wipeout’ if it doesn’t follow Donald Trump fundamentals: ‘Get on that bandwagon!’
Political commentator Ben Habib has warned that Britain risks being “wiped out” if it fails to follow America’s conservative reform agenda, as demonstrated by Donald Trump’s sweeping executive actions in his first days back in office.
Speaking on GBN America, Habib endorsed Trump’s extensive Day one policy changes, which included over 100 executive measures targeting immigration, climate policy and diversity programmes.
The former Brexit Party MEP cautioned that the UK faces an exodus of millionaires and expertise to America unless it adopts similar reforms.
“The world is a very fluid place for expertise and capital and it will go to where it finds its best home,” Habib said.
Ben Habib called on Starmer to follow in Trump’s footsteps
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Trump’s first day back in office saw him sign 45 executive orders, 11 memoranda, five proclamations and four sub-cabinet appointments, whilst revoking 78 Biden-era orders.
The flurry of activity began moments after his swearing-in at the US Capitol, before moving to a packed Capital One Arena where he signed orders dismantling key Biden policies.
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Major changes included declaring a national emergency at the southern border, ending federal diversity programmes, and withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Trump also ordered the termination of electric vehicle mandates and established a new Department of Government Efficiency.
“With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense,” Trump declared in his inaugural address.
The new president’s border initiatives included reinstating the “Remain in Mexico” policy and designating cartels as foreign terrorist organisations.
His order on federal workers stripped job protections from career officials in policy roles, making it easier to dismiss them.
Trump also signed measures requiring government employees to return to in-person work and establishing new rules for security clearances.
In a symbolic move, he ordered the renaming of Alaska’s Denali back to Mount McKinley and proposed changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
The president celebrated his actions by tossing signing pens to supporters at the Capital One Arena.
Habib urged Labour leader Keir Starmer to look across the Atlantic, warning that without similar reforms, Britain would see “an even faster growing US, an even more attractive US with a further exodus of millionaires from the UK”.
“We have driven it out of the UK already through a really bad set of policies, even before Labour won the election,” he told GBN America.
He argued that Trump “is showing that what we have been doing for the last 27 years, the liberal, global approach to governance is not the way to run a country”.
“He is showing us the way to do it and we better get on that bandwagon or we will be wiped out,” Habib concluded.
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Donald Trump ‘personally asked Boris Johnson’ to witness his swearing in while Nigel Farage ‘did not make the cut’
Donald Trump personally asked Boris Johnson to witness his swearing in as President, and has a “good working relationship” with him, says former Tory Security minister Tom Tugendhat.
Tugendhat, who was in Washington DC last week ahead of the President’s inauguration, said Trump has personally asked Johnson to be in the rotunda on Capitol Hill to witness personally his swearing in.
Earlier this week Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, told GB News that he had not “made the cut” and been invited to sit in the Rotunda audience.
Tugendhat told today’s Chopper’s Political Podcast that he had been told by “members of the administration” that it was “a personal decision by the President” to invite Johnson to be there.
Donald Trump personally asked Boris Johnson to witness his swearing in as President, and has a “good working relationship” with him, says former Tory Security minister Tom Tugendhat
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He said: “It is very clear to me that that was a personal choice by the president choosing people who he was close to, to be around him on the day.”
He added: “It wasn’t a large list. There’s not that many people can fit in there. And the President went through the list personally and removed some names and added [others].”
Tugendhat added that Johnson – who has in the past intimated he wants a way back into politics – “has had a very good working relationship with Donald Trump.
Tom Tugendhat, who was in Washington DC last week ahead of the President’s inauguration, said Trump has personally asked Johnson to be in the rotunda on Capitol Hill to witness personally his swearing in
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“He’s got a lot of friends in Washington.
“He’s got a voice that reaches parts that other politicians don’t reach.”
Listen or watch Chopper’s Political Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or GB News’ YouTube channel.
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Rupert Lowe skewers human rights lawyer over outrageous illegal immigrant demand: ‘Pork barrelling a living!’
Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has strongly rejected calls for an amnesty for illegal migrants in Britain, following suggestions by human rights lawyer Ivon Sampson.
Speaking on GB News, Sampson argued that offering an amnesty would enable better tracking of migrants, stating: “The only sensible thing to do is to offer an amnesty – then we have a sensible policy of ensuring those people who come in are tracked.”
Lowe hit back, saying: “These human rights lawyers pork barrel a living on the back of all this Tony Blair legislation which has created our problem.”
He called for tougher measures, suggesting migrants should be placed in “uncomfortable, untented camps” on remote islands.
Rupert Lowe said human rights lawyers like Sampson are ‘pork barrelling a living’
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The clash comes as new figures reveal up to one in 12 people living in London are illegal migrants.
A previously confidential report commissioned by Thames Water estimates between 390,355 and 585,533 illegal migrants are living in the capital, with a median figure of 487,944.
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The study, conducted by Edge Analytics and Leeds University experts, suggests most illegal migrants initially arrived on work, study or visitor visas before overstaying.
The research indicates around one million illegal migrants could be living in the UK, with 60 per cent concentrated in London.
The findings were obtained through Freedom of Information requests to Thames Water, who commissioned the study to better understand their “hidden” service users.
Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf warned the situation represents “not just a national emergency, it’s a national security emergency.”
The human rights lawyer argued in favour of giving all illegal migrants amnesty
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He expressed particular concern about demographics, noting: “90 per cent of the people crossing the Channel are men.”
“The number of military age males making that journey legally surpasses the number of available soldiers, both standing and territorial,” Yusuf told GB News.
Deputy Reform UK leader Richard Tice added: “One in 12 people in London are here illegally, probably working illegally using taxpayer-funded public infrastructure and services. It is totally unacceptable.”
The Home Office reports having removed 16,400 illegal migrants in the past six months, the highest figure in half a decade.
More than 1,000 people have already crossed the Channel in small boats during the first 23 days of 2025.
This follows 38,816 Channel crossings in 2024, the second highest total on record.
A Home Office spokesman said: “This Government is strengthening global partnerships and rooting out the criminal gangs who profit from small boat crossings which threaten lives.”
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp called the figures “deeply alarming” and urged the Labour government to “urgently start deporting far more illegal immigrants.”
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