Labour is incapable of fixing the migrant crisis

The news that over 50,000 migrants have arrived on small boats since Labour took office last year is of no surprise. If things don’t change soon another 50,000 are sure to follow and then another. The causes of the Channel migrant crisis are quite clear. Yet public frustration is at fever pitch partly because none of our political elites – red, blue or turquoise – have any idea how to solve the problem.

Labour’s frontbench is comprised of post-national progressive politicians whose concern is global welfare rather than the particular interests of British citizens

Both establishment parties reacted to the migrant crisis in the same way – not with substantial change but with slogans and ineffective schemes. Just as the Rwanda plan was, essentially, a publicity stunt, so is Keir Starmer’s ‘