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Democrats' immigration debate plays out inside Hispanic Caucus
With Democrats poised to deliver an early immigration victory to President Donald Trump, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus split over how to approach the issue in a closed-door meeting Wednesday morning.
Some discussed using Democrats’ limited political leverage under unified GOP rule: Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) floated conditioning Democratic support for a debt-limit increase on protections for Dreamers — undocumented migrants brought to the U.S. as children.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.), meanwhile, debated how to respond to hard-line Republican-led immigration bills — such as the Laken Riley Act, which has attracted Democratic support and is poised to pass Congress Wednesday. Two people familiar with the meeting were granted anonymity to describe the private conversations.
Ocasio-Cortez emphasized the need for her party to develop a winning strategy and better messaging to respond to the Republican bills and prevent swing-district lawmakers from having to break party ranks.
But Sanchez, who leads the caucus’ political arm, said progressive members’ messaging efforts weren’t working and said that Democrats were at risk of losing the larger battle over immigration policy as a result.
It was the latest manifestation of an intense debate that has racked Democrats since the 2024 elections, where many blamed immigration and border issues for swinging the presidential and congressional results to Republicans.
The Laken Riley Act was only the first of numerous tough-on-immigration bills that Republicans are likely to bring to the House floor. Dozens of Democrats have broken ranks so far, much to the dismay of many Hispanic Caucus members who are watching the party move to the center on its issue — including, they fear, its leaders.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stopped by the Hispanic Caucus meeting, the people familiar said.
Coming out of the broader House Democratic Caucus meeting earlier in the morning, Jeffries said Democrats were “unified in the position that we want to secure the border and fix our broken immigration system in a bipartisan and comprehensive manner.”
Hispanic Caucus chair Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) called the meeting an “informative discussion” about members’ positions and said, “we all agree that the situation at the border needs to be stronger but that we also recognize that Dreamers, farmworkers and families must be protected.”
“We are all united on this,” he said, adding that included Jeffries.
Democratic lawmakers have broadly emphasized to leadership in the wake of the election there needs to be a cohesive message from the party on immigration. But the particulars of that has been tricky, with Republicans eager to put them on the spot by holding votes on bills that would, for instance, require the detention of many migrants accused of crimes.
Rep. Chuy García (D-Ill.) was among those calling for a more forceful response to the GOP legislation.
“I think we need to stand firm, as we’ve done on other causes in the Democratic caucus,” he said. “While we firm up a position on immigration policy in general as we plan forward, it’s important to push back on efforts like this, because if not, then you cede the ground to all kinds of other falsehoods that are to come.”
Some other lawmakers, however, said there had to be some recognition of political reality.
“I think each member has to have a response based on what’s in the best interest of their district,” said Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.). And he took a longer view of their response to Trump: “It’s not a sprint, it’s a two-year marathon.”
Commentator Brett Cooper has praised Donald Trump’s decision to save TikTok, calling it a “huge thing for Gen Z” that demonstrates his willingness to listen to young voters.
Speaking to GBN America, Cooper said the move was “culturally the right thing to do” despite some conservatives wanting the platform banned.
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Reform’s new heartlands revealed as Farage’s party set to decimate Labour strongholds – is YOURS one?
Reform UK is set to detonate several key Labour strongholds with voters abandoning Keir Starmer in droves for Nigel Farage, an eye-opening map has revealed.
It comes after multiple national polls put Reform as the joint most popular party in Britain after Labour slashed winter fuel payments, taxed farmers, raised taxes and sparked market turmoil.
Today national pollsters MoreInCommon put Reform on 25 per cent, tied in first with the Conservatives as the most popular party.
Pollsters ElectionMapsUK have aggregated all national polls in a sophisticated mapping model, weighted for recency and historic pollster accuracy, and generated an electoral map of Britain.
It shows a whopping 76 seats flipping to Reform, with Farage’s party dominating in certain pockets of Britain, usually where Labour once held favour.
GB News has analysed the map and can reveal Reform’s new heartlands are the south-east around the Thames Estuary, the Midlands around Stoke, south Yorkshire and the coast of County Durham in England’s northwest.
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All these areas were dominated by Labour in the July 2024 election and have historically voted for Keir Starmer’s party.
In the Thames Estuary area, Reform is set to win 13 of 16 seats, with eight coming at Labour’s expense. In the northwest heartland, Farage’s party is projected to take nine of eleven seats, all from Labour.
In the midland’s heartland, Labour is set to lose nine seats to Reform, of a possible 14. And finally in south Yorkshire, Reform is tipped to win seven of 10 seats, also all from Labour.
Reform UK’s projected gains in these areas are all the more eye-opening because they are doing what opposition parties have tried to do for decades.
Take the Barnsley North constituency for example. Labour has won the seat since its creation in 1983, most recently triumphing with a 7,811 majority.
But the seat is now projected to flip to Reform in massive swing to Farage’s party.
The story is similar in Hartlepool where Labour has won since 1974, with the exception of a brief Tory triumph in a 2021 by-election.
The seat is now set to go to Reform in a hefty 12.4 per cent swing.
Farage has been voted the most popular politician in the country in a damning assessment of Starmer’s premiership
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It comes as speculation around a possible by-election in disgraced MP Mike Amesbury’s seat intensifies.
The Labour MP pleaded guilty in court last week after a video showing him sucker punching a constituent in a late night bust up was posted online.
Amesbury is yet to resign and trigger a by-election, however. If he receives a custodial or suspended sentence, a recall petition will be offered to his constituents asking if they want another election.
If 10 per cent of eligible voters sign the petition, a by-election would be called, something Labour will be dreading.
Reform UK has been campaigning hard in the seat over the Christmas period in preparation for a by-election, distributing election material and knocking on doors.
Reacting to the research, a Reform UK spokesman said: “This research tells us what we all know, Reform UK has all the momentum in British politics.
“We are surging in the polls and our membership is growing daily. Thanks to this surge in membership, we have more activists than ever before ready to campaign for the May elections.
“We are reconstituting the centre-right of British politics, the Tory brand is broken and Reform are now the real opposition.”
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Heartland One – Thames Estuary
Reform gains
Sittingbourne and Sheppey / Labour / Kevin McKenna
Rochester and Strood / Labour / Lauren Edwards
Gillingham and Rainham / Labour / Naushabah Khan
Chatham and Aylesford / Labour / Tristan Osborne
Dartford / Labour / Jim Dickson
Bexleyheath and Crayford / Labour / Daniel Francis
Dagenham and Rainham / Labour / Margaret Mullane
Hornchurch and Upminster / Conservative / Julia Lopez
Thurrock / Labour / Jen Craft
South Basildon and East Thurrock / Reform / James McMurdock
Castle Point / Conservative / Rebecca Harris
Rayleigh and Wickford / Conservative / Mark Francois
Basildon and Billericay / Conservative / Richard Holden
Heartland Two – Midlands around Stoke
Reform gains
Stoke-on-Trent North / Labour / David Williams
Stoke-on-Trent Central / Labour / Gareth Snell
Burton and Uttoxeter / Labour / Jacob Collier
Cannock Chase / Labour / Josh Newbury
Tamworth / Labour / Sarah Edwards
North Warwickshire and Bedworth / Labour / Rachel Taylor
Nuneaton / Labour / Jodie Gosling
Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North / Labour / Liam Byrne
Walsall and Bloxwich / Labour / Valerie Vaz
Heartland Three – Northwest Coast
Reform Gains
South Shields / Labour / Emma Lewell-Buck
Sunderland Central / Labour / Lewis Atkinson
Houghton and Sunderland South / Labour / Bridget Phillipson
Easington / Labour / Grahame Morris
Hartlepool / Labour / Jonathan Brash
Bishop Auckland / Labour / Sam Rushworth
North Durham / Labour / Luke Akehurst
Washington and Gateshead South / Labour / Sharon Hodgson
Heartland Four – South Yorkshire
Reform Gains
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley / Labour / Yvette Cooper
Normanton and Hemsworth / Labour / Jon Trickett
Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme / Labour / Lee Pitcher
Rotherham / Labour / Sarah Champion
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough / Labour / John Healey
Barnsley South / Labour / Stephanie Peacock
Barnsley North / Labour / Dan Jarvis
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International students could be offered visas to stay in Scotland in new economic push by First Minister
International students who graduate in Scotland could be offered dedicated visas to encourage them to stay in Scotland beyond their studies, if the UK Government agrees to cooperate.
Scottish First Minister John Swinney unveiled the proposal during a speech focussed on opportunities for economic growth in front of a room full of business leaders and representatives from Higher Education at JP Morgan Chase in Glasgow.
He signalled three key focuses for his government in harnessing Scotland’s energy potential, growing the population and forming closer relationships with the European Union.
Flanked by recent graduates starting out their careers at JP Morgan Chase, the First Minister recognised the need for “urgent action, clarity of purpose and collective endeavour”.
International students who graduate in Scotland could be offered dedicated visas to encourage them to stay in Scotland beyond their studies, if the UK Government agrees to cooperate
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He said: “Maximising the economic and community benefit from our massive energy wealth, acting now to address our looming population crisis and committing ourselves once again to Europe and its single market is essential for the wellbeing of our society and the future success of the economy.”
To tackle Scotland’s chequered past of graduate retention, the ‘Scottish Graduate Visa’ would be linked to a Scottish tax code and be based on a requirement to work and live in Scotland.
The two-year visa is designed to give international graduates two more years of skilled work within their areas of expertise, acting as a bridge before to gain the necessary experience to apply for a Skilled Worker Visa.
Migration is not a devolved issue and is therefore reserved to Westminster, so Swinney has called on the UK Government to cooperate.
In 2005, the UK and Scottish Labour governments introduced the ‘Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland’ scheme – another post-graduate visa route for international students that was replaced by a UK wide scheme before being stopped in 2012.
Eluding to Scotland’s growing concern over an ageing population, Swinney said: “We need a new focus on an immigration policy that works for Scotland.
“We need people to come here, to live and work to bolster our working age population.
“We need them to address skill shortages and to increase our productivity and our innovation.
“They’re welcome for who they are, for the contribution they will make to our land, their distinct perspective, their hopes and their ambitions, but have no doubt, they are essential for tax revenues and sustainability of our public services like our National Health Service and the future successes of your businesses, as paid employees or paying customers.”
With regards to setting his Government’s sights on closer ties with the EU, the First Minister said that his aim wasn’t to look backwards and reopen the Brexit debate, but to strengthen ties with the bloc.
“Simply put, ‘Remain’ was the past; ‘Rejoin’ is Scotland’s best hope for a more prosperous future,” he said.
He hopes to move towards a veterinary agreement with the EU to lower the barriers to trade for Scottish produce.
In March 2024, the Scottish Government announced exports of Scottish fruit and meat to the EU fell by 59 per cent and 29 per cent respectively, compared to the equivalent period in 2020.
Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Murray, has already prioritised the advancement of ‘Brand Scotland’ within his remit, placing his drive for Scottish produce within close proximity to the First Minister.
Scottish First Minister John Swinney unveiled the proposal during a speech focussed on opportunities for economic growth in front of a room full of business leaders and representatives from Higher Education at JP Morgan Chase in Glasgow
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However, given Keir Starmer’s repeated commitment to “make Brexit work” for Britain, ambitions of rejoining the EU are unlikely to spread south any time soon.
Answering questions from the media and business representatives, Mr Swinney was inevitably quizzed on the President Trump resuming office and what they could mean for Scotland.
“I’ve made no secret of the fact that I am alert to the danger of tariffs and the damage that could do to the Scottish whisky industry,” he said.
“There is absolutely no alternative but for me to engage with the US Administration led by President Trump, should those circumstances arise.”
President Trump’s first term saw a 25% tariff fall on Scotch whisky imports during the last 18 months of his tenure, estimated by the Scotch Whisky Association to have cost the industry £600 million.
Should such a tariff be placed on more one of Scotland’s most profitable exports to the United States, it would surely put a star-spangled spanner in the First Minister’s economic ambitions.
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Keir Starmer scolded for ‘bizarre rabbit hole of blame’ over Axel Rudakubana failings: ‘A real cover-up!’
The head of a leading think tank has accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of going down a “bizarre rabbit hole” of blame in his response to the Southport attack case.
Alan Mendoza, Executive Director of the Henry Jackson Society, told GB News he was “puzzled” by Starmer’s approach to the failings that led to Axel Rudakubana’s deadly rampage.
Mendoza criticised the Prime Minister for focusing on social media and Amazon rather than addressing the multiple occasions authorities could have intervened.
“It would have been quite easy for the Prime Minister to make a decision to say, ‘look, we messed up, the authorities messed up, it wasn’t on my watch, I promise to do better’,” Mendoza said.
Mendoza hit out at Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s blame of Amazon in Axel Rudakubana’s case
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The Southport attacker had purchased the murder weapon from Amazon without significant barriers, when he was 17-years-old.
In response to the attack, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced stricter measures for online knife purchases, requiring two forms of identification.
Mendoza claimed there was a “real cover-up” of crucial information about the attacker in the aftermath of the incident.
He specifically criticised the Government’s decision to withhold key information about Rudakubana’s activities.
Keir Starmer has defended his actions after being blasted for Southport ‘cover-up’
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“You knew things about al-Qaeda training manuals, you knew he was watching beheading videos, you knew that he had an interest in all these activities and was talking about ricin back in August,” he told GB News.
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He argued this information could have been revealed within days of the crime. The think tank director suggested earlier disclosure might have prevented subsequent unrest.
“Had that come out, I think they would have defused a lot of the pressures out there, where people felt there was a real cover up going on,” he said.
“It turns out they were right, there was a cover up going on,” Mendoza added.
Starmer has recently warned that Britain faces a new threat from “young men in their bedrooms” accessing radical materials online.
Mendoza told GB News that there was a ‘cover up’ of information relating to Rudakubana
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“Terrorism has changed,” the Prime Minister said. “Now, alongside that we also see acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners, misfits, young men in their bedroom.”
The new requirements for buying knives online will mandate that buyers provide documents such as a passport or driving licence, along with a live video verification of their age.
Amazon has responded to the incident by launching an urgent investigation, stating they take their responsibility around age-restricted items “extremely seriously.”
The online retailer confirmed they use ID verification services to check personal details and require age verification upon delivery.
House and Senate GOP leaders are internally debating a possible deal with Democrats that would include government funding, California wildfire aid, a debt-limit hike and border security money, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter.
Senior Republicans have been privately mulling a bipartisan government funding deal for weeks now, wary that they may not be able to add a debt-limit hike to their party-line reconciliation package given internal GOP divisions over the matter. But conversations around the potential larger deal have heated up in recent days as GOP leaders try to figure out how to lift the approaching debt ceiling while also advancing a massive, party-line reconciliation bill and avoiding a March 15 government shutdown.
The strategy isn’t finalized. Asked about it on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) indicated that he was open to linking everything together in a giant package but that several options are currently under discussion.
“I’m interested in getting a result on all of the above but how we do that is still an open question,” he said.
It would come with plenty of risks — Republicans would need to convince Democrats to accept the border funding increase. And they could face backlash from House GOP hard-liners unless they attach steep spending cuts, which would automatically threaten Democratic support and raise the risk of a shutdown. President Donald Trump has already shown interest in linking wildfire aid to the longer-term debt ceiling hike he is pursuing.
House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) met Wednesday as they negotiated a top-line dollar amount to pitch to Democrats that would pave the way for lawmakers to craft the larger funding package. Those appropriators are circling an agreement for the top-line number, which they hope to clinch in the coming days.
As expected, conservative hardliners who are less inclined to support funding bills such as Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), are signaling they’ll oppose such a package. Roy warned in a brief interview Wednesday that he would oppose the option unless there were spending cuts included and indicated he would want disaster relief spending to be paid for.
Linking border, debt and disaster aid to government funding isn’t the only option that leadership has floated, and in some cases walked back, in recent weeks.
Speaker Mike Johnson has floated linking the debt ceiling to money to recover from the California wildfires. Thune also previously indicated that the debt ceiling was unlikely to be included in the GOP border and energy bill Senate Republicans are crafting, in another sign that Republicans were likely to leave it out of their party-line reconciliation effort.
Johnson, Thune and their respective leadership teams met with Trump on Tuesday, where they discussed the government funding deadline, and potentially linking disaster aid and the debt ceiling.
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Reform UK declare ‘national security emergency’ as staggering number of illegal migrants in London laid bare
London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, equivalent to one in 12 of the city’s population, according to a previously confidential report commissioned by Thames Water.
The study, conducted by Edge Analytics and demography experts at Leeds University, aimed to quantify “hidden” users of water services.
The report estimates between 390,355 and 585,533 illegal migrants live in London, with a median figure of 487,944.
Most illegal migrants arrived in the UK on work, study or visitor visas before overstaying, the report suggests.
Zia Yusuf declared a national emergency
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Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf said he was “not the least bit surprised” by the figures, stating that “anyone who has walked or lived in London knows in their bones these figures are true.”
He accused the Office of National Statistics of “gaslighting” the public, pointing to how legal migration figures were revised upward by 20 per cent.
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Migrant small boats continue to arrive from across the channel.Getty Images“The Tories allowed hundreds of thousands of largely men to cross our Channel illegally and what did they do? They put them up in phones and basically give them every incentive to come here,” he added.
Yusuf warned the situation represents “not just a national emergency, it’s a national security emergency.”
He expressed particular concern about demographics, stating: “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,” he said.
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“And most of them come from Afghanistan, Syria, Iran – countries with not the friendliest track records to this country,” Yusuf added, calling the situation “incredibly and grossly unfair.”
In total, there are estimated to be more than one million illegal migrants in the UK, with 60 per cent of those in the capital.
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice told The Telegraph: “One in 12 people in London are here illegally, probably working illegally using taxpayer-funded public infrastructure and services. It is totally unacceptable.”
“It’s another reason why we need to properly control our borders and welcome those who come here legally but thank those who are here illegally as we return them where they came from,” he added.
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.”
The spokesman added they had “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.”
The Home Office confirmed 1,000 migrants had crossed the Channel so far this year, following 38,816 in 2024, the second highest total on record.
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‘Deeply alarming’ new report shows 1 in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants as Home Office fails to publish population data
As many as one in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants, a “deeply alarming” new report has revealed.
A previously confidential report found that almost 600,000 people live in the nation’s capital without the right to be in Britain – but the Home Office do not provide any official figures on the scale of the problem.
The figure – some 585,000 in London – has come to light after a study for Thames Water was brought to light by The Telegraph through freedom of information-style laws for the environment.
The report estimates that there are more than one million illegal migrants in the UK as a whole – 60 per cent of which reside in the capital.
As many as one in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants, the report found
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It suggests that the majority of illegal migrants arrived in the UK on work, study or visitor visas and then overstayed.
Migration experts have even warned that the numbers could be even higher as some of the underlying data dates from 2017, before immigration – both legal and illegal – soared under the former Conservative Government.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp – who served in said Government – called the figures “deeply alarming” and has called on Labour to ramp up its deportations.
In a veiled swipe at the ECHR, Philp added: “It is totally unacceptable to have these numbers of illegal immigrants in the UK. The law needs to be looked at so that spurious human rights, modern slavery and asylum claims cannot be used to delay or prevent removals of illegal immigrants.”
That sentiment was echoed by Reform UK’s migration hardliner MP Rupert Lowe, who said “mass deportations” are now required.
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Almost 600,000 people live in the nation’s capital without the right to be in Britain
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While the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice warned: “One in 12 people in London are here illegally – probably working illegally using taxpayer-funded public infrastructure and services. It is totally unacceptable.
“It’s another reason why we need to properly control our borders and welcome those who come here legally, but thank those who are here illegally as we return them where they came from.”
The Thames Water report, carried out by Edge Analytics and Leeds University data analysts, had aimed to work out how many people truly used its services to enable the water firm to better meet demand.
It based its research on national estimates of illegal migrants from the Pew Research Center in the US, the London School of Economics, and Office for National Statistics data.
It then used National Insurance registrations for non-EU foreign nationals over a nine-year period to estimate the number of so-called “irregular” migrants in each London borough.
Reform’s Richard Tice called the illegal migration situation ‘totally unacceptable’
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For London, the study placed its estimate at a minimum of 390,355 illegal migrants and a maximum of 585,533 at its highest, with a median figure of 487,944.
The capital’s estimated population sits at 7,044,667. As a result, one in 12 of the capital’s population is an illegal migrant.
When other areas outside London covered by Thames Water are included, like Henley, Guildford, Reading, Swindon and Newbury, the range for the number of illegal migrants rises to between 415,568 to 623,351.
But in the face of this, the Home Office does not publish any full data on the total number of illegal migrants in the UK, while only since 2018 has it publicised figures on the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.
The Home Office, responding to The Telegraph’s findings, hailed how it had ‘removed 16,400 illegal migrants in just six months’
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A Thames Water spokesman said: “Water companies have a regulatory obligation to undertake a ‘water balance’, which includes understanding how much water our customers use on a per-person basis, and how it is distributed across our supply area.
“Analysis to estimate ‘hidden and transient’ populations is carried out by an independent firm of consultants, who draw from publicly available sources including census, surveys, and published academic research.
“Thames Water played no part in the writing of the report and the conclusions drawn are those of the independent firm that carried out the research.”
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.”
You, the British people, are being gaslit. You are being lied to.
While the people always sensed there was something unusual about the Southport atrocities ever since that fateful day the authorities have hid behind legal processes and bureaucracies.
Yesterday, Keir Starmer admitted that he knew the details about Axel Rudakubana’s background long before they came out.
But this is not consistent with his previous actions.
Matt Goodwin spoke on GB News
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During the 2017 Finsbury Park terror attack, Starmer called it a terror attack before terrorism charges were announced.
He also did the same in the case of the London Bridge attack in 2017 and the Plymouth attack in 2019.
And of course after Southport he had no problem at all in deriding many people as “far right thugs” before they went to court and had their cases heard
Yesterday, he appealed to contempt of court laws for not releasing the information about Southport earlier.
But if it applies to Southport, why didn’t this apply to three other terror attacks, as well as those protests?
We’re now of course hearing reports that CPS pressured Merseyside Police not to release the suspect’s details.
Keir Starmer said he was aware of some of the circumstances surrounding Rudakubana
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But just to top it all off, the government now wants you to believe this was a case of knife-purchase laws not being strong enough.
You may remember when David Amess was murdered by an Islamist terrorist.
Parliamentarians tried to make the issue about online abuse.
Well, the same thing is happening now.
The government has fast-tracked tighter restrictions on online knife sales for under-18s, as if Amazon was to blame for Southport.
Writing in the Sun today, the Prime Minister called Axel Rudakubana, a two-click killer.
But the fact of the matter is that the system, the state, failed the victims of Southport, much like it failed the victims of Pakistani rape gangs.
It’s time for the obfuscation, the concealment, the cover-ups and the deflections to come to an end.
It’s time for the people in power to tell us the truth!
We are witnessing a giant deflection tactic when it comes to the Southport massacre.
Let’s get one thing clear – knives don’t kill people. Deranged lunatics do.
Keir Starmer’s decided that the main problem here is that the monster Axel Rudakubana could buy a knife and now we’re going to get new laws on that.
You’ve got James O’Brien piping up now blaming Jeff Bezos…
Patrick Christys says we are witnessing a ‘massive’ deflection tactic
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Rudakubana was referred to Prevent three times. He was expelled from school. He apparently attacked pupils with a hockey stick at school. He was known to police. His parents must have had an idea that their son was a monster.
His father reportedly stopped him getting in a taxi to his old school, a week before he took another one on his way to commit the dance studio massacre.
Labour wants tougher laws for under-18’s buying knives online. Firstly, that would have prevented him from buying one for a few weeks. Secondly, he could have killed people with the biological weapon he was making. Thirdly, Labour wanted votes for 16-year-olds at the last election.
So he’d have been old enough to vote, but not old enough to buy a knife.
Fourthly, as Nigel Farage points out, you can’t ban knives entirely – there is a murder weapon in every kitchen drawer.
We’ve been here before.
Keir Starmer admitting to knowing details about Axel Rudakubana before the public
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After the murder of Sir David Amess by a jihadi lunatic somehow it all became about passing a new law to clamp down on social media use.
What about clamping down on jihadis instead?
What you’re going to see now in the Southport case is a concerted attempt to do everything apart from tackle the real issue.
GB News Presenter Matt Goodwin said: “Southport is not about buying knives on Amazon, or what big tech lets us watch online…It’s about hapless Western leaders importing masses of people from high conflict societies who are more prone to violence, don’t share our values and don’t care about our people.”
And look at what’s happened today in Germany, again.
An Afghan asylum seeker stabs a toddler and a man to death in a park.
Our establishment politicians will do everything to distract you from the fact it’s their ideologies and their decisions that have put us all, and our children, at risk.
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Keir Starmer branded a ‘very dangerous man’ as PM raises ‘authoritarian’ fears with protest crackdown
Political commentator Aaron Bastani has issued a stark warning about Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, describing him as a “very, very dangerous man” who could quickly become “authoritarian”.
Speaking on GB News, Bastani expressed deep concerns about potential restrictions on protest rights under Starmer’s leadership.
“I think he’s a very, very dangerous man and I think he’d be a very authoritarian man very quickly,” Bastani said.
The commentator warned that attempts to criminalise protest could lead down a “slippery slope”.
Aaron Bastani is fearful of Keir Starmer cracking down on protests
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The warning comes amid recent protests in London that saw significant police intervention.
Just days ago, 77 protesters were arrested during a pro-Palestine demonstration in central London.
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Pro-Palestine protesters have taken to the streets of London PAThe Metropolitan Police said the arrests followed “a coordinated effort to breach Public Order Act conditions and cause serious disruption to Londoners”.
The demonstration, which took place on the eve of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, was confined to a static rally in Whitehall after police rejected the organisers’ initially proposed route.
It marked the largest number of arrests at such rallies since they began in October 2023.
Bastani defended the fundamental importance of protest rights, regardless of political stance.
The matter was discussed on GB News
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“The right to protest is only meaningful if it applies to people you disagree with,” he told GB News.
He pointed to recent farmers’ protests as an example of positive democratic expression.
“If you look at the recent farmers’ protest, that was really powerful and positive in many ways to see so many people from around the country protesting their point of view and their rights at the heart of Government,” he said.
He stressed that protest rights shouldn’t be limited only to those whose views align with the authorities.
Bastani warned that restrictions on pro-Palestinian protesters could set a concerning precedent.
“If he’s doing this to Palestinian protesters, who do you think is next?” he questioned.
The political commentator emphasised that protecting fundamental rights was crucial for everyone.
“I think everybody should care deeply about the rights of free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of protest, because it won’t stop here if this man is given a free hand,” he said.
His comments highlight growing tensions between protest rights and public order enforcement in the capital.
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