Watch moment GB News guest scoffs at Keir Starmer's TikTok masterplan to tackle small boats crisis

The channel, Secure Borders UK, will be launched today, packed with images and videos of the arrest, detainment and deportation of illegal migrants and foreign criminals.

Currently, the official Home Office account has a total of 303 followers, having posted a single video with a comment section full to the brim of mockery and snide quips by critics.

In the one video posted, dramatic music soundtracks a series of clipped-up footage showing immigration enforcement officers raiding homes and businesses alike and carrying out arrests of those thought to be residing in the UK illegally.

The profile will seek to showcase the UK Government’s work to tackle illegal migration and restore order and control to our borders.

But former editor of the Sunday Express, David Wooding, simply guffawed at the Prime Minister's plan, which comes as part of Downing Street's crackdown on illegal labour across Britain.

He told GB News: "When Keir Starmer became Prime Minister or when he wanted to become Prime Minister, he told us there'd be no more gimmicks and no more stunts to stop the boats, unlike the Tories.

"And then we had what? Smash the gangs. Nothing came of that.

"And now the latest wheeze from Labour is to set up a TikTok account called, which is laughable as well."

But Mr Wooding is not alone in his mockery of the latest bid to tackle the small boats crisis bearing a great weight on the shoulders of Labour Ministers.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: "This is yet another pathetic gimmick that won't work.

"The idea that putting some posts on TikTok will stop illegal immigrants is laughable — just like the Government's previous gimmick to smash the gangs.

"The Labour Government is putting illegal channel immigrants up in hotels, allowing rampant illegal working and allowing 95 per cent of them to stay.

"No wonder they continue to flood in, with numbers surging since Labour came to power.

"The only way to stop this is to leave the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) so every single illegal immigrant can be deported within a week of arrival with no court cases and no messing around. Then the crossings would pretty soon stop."

Latest Government figures indicate that enforcement visits and arrests soared to their highest-ever level since records began back in 2019.

Across businesses like nail salons, car washes and barbers, Labour boasted that 12,791 of such visits took place last year, a 57 per cent jump on 2024.

Meanwhile, 8,971 people were detailed across the course of 2025, marking an increase of almost 59 per cent of the year before.

However, 1,087 of those arrested have been deported from Britain.

In a statement, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: "There is no place for illegal working in our communities. That is why we have surged enforcement activity to the highest level in British history, so illegal migrants in the black economy have nowhere to hide.

"I will stop at nothing to restore order and control to our borders."

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