Britain’s newspapers on Thursday highlight two familiar sides of the migration debate. First, the myth that the establishment is finally getting to grips with the issue, this time by only allowing those fluent in English to remain in the country. Second, the reality that, despite all the tough talk, the situation has in fact got worse.
It has emerged that the taxpayer now forks out £4.6 million (€5.4 million) every day to house migrants in hotels and other asylum accommodation—that’s equivalent to £3,172 (€3,700) per minute. This figure, reported in The Daily Telegraph, is three times higher than initial estimates.
It also comes in spite of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s pledge last year to “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds.”
The level of disillusionment with establishment party ‘attempts’ to stop Channel crossings could not have been clearer in last week’s local elections, specifically when Reform overturned almost three decades of Conservative control of the coastal county of Kent, where the boats actually land. Party leader Nigel Farage described his gains there as “beyond my wildest dreams,” adding:
This is the most seismic change in a day in the politics of this county and indeed this country that we’ve ever, ever seen.
Labour insiders also admitted to the press that the continued housing of illegal migrants in hotels has a lot to do with increasing support for Reform, yet experience teaches that the likelihood of them doing anything about this is slim.
The government will instead continue pretending the issue is in hand. On Wednesday, the Home Office boasted that “we’ve returned over 24,000 people with no right to be in the UK”—a claim which even the establishment BBC dismissed as “misleading” because only 6,339 of these were enforced returns.
Reform is now hoping to turn the tide on Channel crossings by using various “instruments of power” to block the housing of illegal migrants in hotels in the areas they govern. If it is successful, the party will have proved its ability to govern differently from Labour and the Conservatives and is likely to be rewarded for this at the next general election.
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