Bill for borders beggars belief

KEIR Starmer is a fool. But his mistake has been taking the British public for fools especially over immigration.

- Carole Malone

This week, we found out the real cost of housing immigrants not from Yvette Cooper or our PM, but from the National Audit Office, which says housing immigrants now costs £4million a DAY that’s THREE times more than our useless Home Office predicted.

This is the same Home Office that 20 years ago was damned as unfit for purpose. Two decades on, it has distinguished itself by reaching unprecedented levels of incompetence. What else can explain the prediction that, by 2029, the migrants housing bill would be £4.5billion, when the reality is it will be £15.3billion?

But actually, it will be way more than that. The numbers coming in small boats under Labour are breaking records by the day 11,000 so far this year with 140,000 since 2019. So have this useless bunch of civil servants been lying to us?

Or are they just so thick they can’t add up? And how has this wanton profligacy with our money been allowed to happen?

Because on top of that £15.3billion, there’s the £1billion a year we pay migrants in benefits and God knows how much more for health services and education.