Sir Keir Starmer has been told that the "buck stops with our Government" in a withering assessment by a GB News guest as Britain's migrant crisis continues to escalate.
Speaking on the People's Channel, Political Commentator Charlie Downes criticised the Prime Minister's efforts to stop the small boat crossings.
Three migrants have died trying to cross the Channel overnight, just hours after a female migrant drowned in UK waters.
More than 150 migrants were found in difficulty in the early hours of this morning, with several suffering from hypothermia. It follows a further 850 migrants entering Britain in the last 24 hours.
Charlie Downes declared the buck 'must stop with Government' amid the ongoing migrant crisis
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Hitting out at Labour's "failures" in tackling the migrant crossings in light of the deaths, Mr Downes told GB News: "It's stories like this that show you the number of different points of failure that the illegal migration crisis that we are currently going through represents.
"Because there's the first point of failure, which is that these people are even allowed to make it to France in the first place, that they're allowed to pass through however many safe countries there are between their point of origin and their point of destination.
"The second is that they are permitted to leave French shores in these very dangerous dinghies."
Criticising the Government's "incentive structure", Mr Downes stated: "You have the UK Government, which is working to create the incentive structure for these crossings to happen in the first place. That is the key point here.
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| PA"It is a tragedy that these people have died in the Channel, but the buck must stop with our Government, because for all the talk of cracking down and for all the talk of taking out the incentives for these people to come here, it's not happening."
Casting doubt over Labour's "one in, one out deal" with France, Mr Downes said nothing the Government is implementing is working.
He explained: "We were told that the one in, one out deal with France would have been a deterrent, that hasn't worked. The UK Government has been running advertisements in France, saying if you come to the UK, you may risk being deported. Very, very weak language that hasn't worked.
"It's obvious that the strategy that this Government is deploying to deal with this problem is simply not working, because I don't think they have the will to actually solve it, and the human cost is that people are dying."
Mr Downes told GB News that Britain has 'enshrined in law the doctrine of human rights'
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Offering sharp criticism of the UK's loyalty to human rights legislation, Mr Downes concluded: "The legal structure that's been created in this country since at least 1997 has really enabled this entire crisis to happen, because it has enshrined in law the doctrine of human rights, which at one level sounds kind of nice and noble, but actually is easily exploited by people who do not share our sense of honesty and our tradition of playing by the rules as a country.
"And so it allows people to exploit these systems that we have. If these people were legitimate refugees, I don't think anybody would have a problem with that. But the fact of the matter is they're not. They're primarily economic migrants coming here to do God knows what."
He added: "There's only one reason you cross the Channel illegally, and that's because you don't want your name on the books, because there's perfectly easy legal routes to enter this country, as millions of people do every year.
"And so I think that the Government that currently rules this country, Starmer, Hermer and others on the frontbench, they're true believers in this doctrine of human rights. Starmer himself, of course, was a human rights lawyer before he was Prime Minister, and he was an expert when it comes to economic routes into this country."