The good news for Sir Keir Starmer Is that he's finally found a head of Border Command. The bad news for Sir Keir Starmer is that the bloke he's picked has just told him that his plan to smash the gangs won't work.
In fact, it's actually doomed to fail unless he introduces something like the Rwanda scheme.
But he scrapped that on day one. Martin Hewitt, who was the police officer in charge of enforcing the lockdown rules, presumably if he was comfortable keeping all of us shackled to metaphorical radiators inside our own homes for months on end, then he won't have a problem stopping people breaking into Britain.
Martin Hewitt has come out and said that he can't stop the boats or smash the gangs without an additional deterrent, and he's reportedly told the Prime Minister that his current plan to smash the gangs just simply won't work.
Patrick Christys said the PM faces good news and bad news
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In fact, when Sir Keir did this on day one, turns out that was basically a human rights lawyer talking and not anyone from our security services.
Shadow Home Secretary James Cleverly has said: "The need for a deterrent to stop the people smugglers is obvious.
"We know it. The National Crime Agency knows it, and now we're here. Labor's new border commander knows it. It's becoming increasingly clear that Labour's cancellation of our plan with no replacement won't cut it.
"Tough talk, but doing less isn't a plan. It's smoke and mirrors and they are being found out."
While fellow Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick has also piled in, saying: "It sounds like Sir Keir's new borders chief has taken this job only to tell him that his plan to stop the boats won't work.
"That's why I warned Labour not to scrap the Rwanda deterrent but strengthen it. It's now clear Sir Keir is utterly clueless and the boats are still coming. Unless Labour introduces a deterrent, we will still be in this position come the next election."
Keir Starmer is the UK Prime Minister GB NEWSI'm afraid to say the numbers speak for themselves. There's been 10,000 arrivals since Starmer took office.
Every single one of them will now be able to claim asylum in a way that they simply could not before the last election, and the facts speak for themselves as well.
He went to talk to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni because he doesn't have a plan.
Patrick Christys said: "I'm afraid to say the numbers speak for themselves"
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He's probably going to replace Rwanda with Albania, but the left hate it and he'll just run into the exact same issues with lawyers that the Tories are.
I'll just say that was Diane Abbott's tweet. They're calling Meloni a literal fascist.
Okay, Starmer doesn't have a plan. He never did, and I doubt he ever will.
