House of Lords life peer Jacqueline Foster has blasted Rishi Sunak over his immigration failures.
It comes after it was revealed net migration to the UK is unlikely to drop below pre-Brexit levels by the end of the decade, remaining at around 250,000 to 350,000 a year, according to a new forecast.
Speaking on GB News, Foster claimed Governments worldwide have “pussyfooted” around the issue and continued to throw money at foreign aid budgets, which she claims has exacerbated the surge of groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
She told Michelle Dewberry that while she is an “optimist”, there has been too many “excuses” for Britain’s open borders.
Jacqueline Foster has laid into Rishi Sunak over his immigration failures
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“I am sick and tired of this pussyfooting around”, she said.
“Making excuses as to why for some historic reason some particular group or country has a grudge.
“While they are allowed and appeased to behave in the manner they are doing, we are not going to resolve this because it will exacerbate.
“We have seen what has happened in the last few years with immigration it is so difficult to control.
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“If we do try to put measures in place, we find then there’s a lot of politicians who don’t want to.”
Challenged by Dewberry over her party, the Conservatives, being the controlling party for over a decade and not being able to get to grips with the issue, Foster conceded that she “agrees”.
“You have got to have cross-party solutions”, she responded, a comment which led to further probing by the GB News presenter as she pointed to the party’s majority in Parliament.
“We have had a majority since 2015, we were initially in coalition with the Liberal Democrats”, she said.
“I have said all along that the primary purpose of a nation state is to protect its citizens.
“We have people coming in this country and going into other countries throughout Europe, we have no idea who they are.
“They are coming across borders and our own Government really has to clamp down on what is going on.”
Net migration figures are likely to fall sharply from the record high over the coming years, according to the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics (LSE).
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was forced to deny he’d lost control of rising migration, but admitted numbers were “too high” earlier this year.
Sunak has faced further backlash from Tory MPs over Brexit commitments and his promise to ‘Stop the Boats’ in one of his five pledges.
The Prime Minister will point to external factors preventing him from carrying out significant parts of his plan, such as the European Court of Human Rights blocking his move to send migrants to Rwanda.
