Keir Starmer boasted he would smash the gangs, but the gangs are laughing at him, as new data reveals that people smugglers are less likely than ever to be prosecuted, on Labour’s watch.
- During the period in which a record number of illegal immigrants entered on small boats (43,309 between July 2024 and June 2025), a record low number of prosecutions (outside of a Covid year) were sought for assisting illegal entry (just 153). Only 446 individuals were charged with an immigration offence between July 2024 and June 2025, representing 1 per cent of those crossing on small boats.
- Keir Starmer is incapable of stopping the boats and his backbenchers do not want him to. The country cannot go on like this. Those who arrive illegally from the safety of France must be swiftly deported so the message is clear: if you break into Britain, you will not get a life here.
