Labour has been accused of being “pathologically determined to keep letting in hundreds of thousands” of illegal migrants as tensions over the crisis escalate.
Speaking to GB News, Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies James Price warned that if Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t act quickly, there will be “no Britain left”.
In the latest Government move to tackle the small boat crossings, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced plans to “fast track” applications in the asylum backlog.
Calling for a “major overhaul” of the appeals process, Cooper said: “If we speed up the decision-making appeal system and also then keep increasing returns, we hope to be able to make quite a big reduction in the overall numbers in the asylum system, because that is the best way to actually restore order and control.”
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James Price warned Labour that they will need to implement ‘illiberal’ policy to tackle the surging small boat crossings
Discussing Labour’s efforts to tackle the crisis on GB News, Price said: “The Government has every incentive to try and sort this issue out. They can blame the old Government, they can get a load of credit for doing it.
“And yet they seem to be almost pathologically determined just to continue allowing hundreds of thousands of people, either legally or illegally, to come into the country.”
He added: “I think there is just a general fear built up that it’s mean and nasty if we don’t do these things, and all the countries talk the talk on this, and it’s seemingly only Britain that walks the walk on this.”
As host Anne Diamond highlighted that Britain is “being lectured by other countries” on the issue, Price agreed: “And rightly so.
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PA | More than 25,000 small boat migrants have crossed the Channel into Britain this year alone“Trump did it when he was over here, and lots of other countries are looking at us like we’re complete basket cases about it. But we have still got a ruddy big navy that you could plonk in the middle of the Channel and physically stop these boats.”
Stressing that it is “not difficult” for Britain to stop the Channel crossings, Price explained: “It’s not difficult to physically stop the boats coming.
“Dominic Cummings said recently that if the Prime Minister tried to order the Navy to do that, then the Cabinet Secretary would go and have the Prime Minister arrested for breaking various human rights laws. That’s the stuff we’ve got to get to the bottom of and get rid of the lawyers from this process.”
Issuing a stark warning to Labour, Price cautioned that the Government may be forced to do something “illiberal” to stop the boats, if the numbers become too vast to handle.
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Price told GB News that there will be ‘no Britain left’ if Labour doesn’t act
Price told GB News: “The hour is growing so late that we’re going to have to start doing things that feel a little bit illiberal if we’re going to be able to maintain the country.
“Frankly, it’s getting to that point where the numbers are so large and the the scale of change is so fast that we’ll have to do these kind of things.”
He concluded: “Whatever the next Government comes in, whatever colour that Government is going to be, it’s going to have to do some pretty nasty, punchy things that we’ve not quite got the stomach for yet in order to maintain sovereignty of this country.
“But we better get ready for it now, because this Government’s not going to do it. And if we don’t, there’s no Britain left.”
