'PM has turned truth on its head by blaming Brexit for migrants crisis'

THE Prime Minister has once again turned the truth on its head by trying to blame Brexit, and me, for the thousands of illegal immigrants landing on our shores.

- By Michael Knowles and Martyn Brown

Sir Keir Starmer says he “would gently point out to Nigel Farage and others that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU” to send back asylum seekers. He even called dinghies crossing the Channel with illegal immigrants “Farage boats”.

Let me point out to Starmer, none too gently, that even by Labour’s standards, this is an extraordinarily devious and dishonest effort to mislead the British people. Until 2020, when earn the right to settle here rather than “paying a people smuggler”.

Some in the Government are concerned asylum seekers are effectively “shopping” for “the country that offers them the most”.