UK Home Secretary walks back ‘guarantee’ that illegal migrants will ‘definitely’ be deported this month
The influx of mostly Muslim migrants into Britain is coming from France, which is an open-door, globalist country under its President Emmanuel Macron, so France has only itself to blame for its migration problems. Both leftist France and Britain have been doing nothing about English Channel illegals. In July 2021, French warships were caught escorting illegal, mostly Muslim migrants to British shores. Then in November 2022, it was discovered that UK government vessels and French Navy ships were colluding to bring illegal migrants into Britain.
Meanwhile, the UK’s ruling Labour party has been tanking in popularity polls, consistently and over a considerable period of time. Labour is now polling at 20%, while Reform UK leads with 28%. Another notable characteristic of the Labour party is that it tries to boost its popularity by consistently making promises about managing the invasion of illegals via the English Channel. But then Labour reliably reneges on these promises. The government is stringing British citizens along in the hope that no one will wake up and realize that they are in favor of open-door migration, despite the multilayered costs to their own people.
The history of the Labour Party speaks for itself; far-left governments are invariably supportive of open-door migration. A decade ago, the Guardian wrote this about Labour:
It is easy to forget just how much immigration and asylum haunted Downing Street throughout New Labour’s time in office. Between 1997 and 2010, net annual immigration quadrupled, and the UK population was boosted by more than 2.2 million immigrants, more than twice the population of Birmingham. In Labour’s last term in government, 2005-2010, net migration reached on average 247,000 a year.
Nothing has really changed with the Labour party, except that Britons are waking up to its wiles and rebelling via the Operation Raise the Flag campaign. Yet Labour, by all indications, intends to keep on lying to the British people and telling them what they want to hear, in order to hold on to power.
Home Secretary fails to guarantee France migrant returns will happen this month
by David Lynch, Independent, September 2, 2025:
Yvette Cooper has declined to guarantee that migrants will definitely be sent back across the Channel in September as part of a returns agreement with France.
The first returns are “expected” this month, the Home Secretary has said, but she was cautious not to promise deportations will go ahead during September when speaking to broadcasters.
Ministers are confident they can speed up efforts to empty asylum hotels before their self-imposed deadline of the end of the Parliament, Ms Cooper also signalled.
Ms Cooper said the first deportations under the “one in, one out” pilot scheme with France were expected to take place this month as she addressed MPs on their return to Parliament.
The deal will see the UK send back migrants to France who crossed the Channel, in exchange for those who apply and are approved to come to the UK.
The Home Secretary was asked by Sky News whether she could guarantee returns would begin amid reports the French government may falter on the deal.
She insisted the UK would “continue to work” with France.
Pressed for a guarantee, she replied: “We expect the first returns to take place this month. But I’ve always said from the very beginning on this, it’s a pilot scheme and it needs to build up over time.”
She contrasted her “practical and sensible” approach with that of the previous Conservative government on Rwanda, which “spent £700 million and sent four volunteers after running it for two years”…..
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