Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accused recently-installed Prime Minister Andy Burnham of being delusional about the migrant crisis in the English Channel, which has ramped up considerably since the new government came to power last week. During his first week in officer, Prime Minister Burnham oversaw some 881 illegals being brought ashore at the Port of Dover. This compares with the 546 boat migrant arrivals during the first week of Sir Keir Starmer’s administration in July of 2024, according to The Sun.
Despite the fact that Starmer would go on to allow in the most illegals of any prime minister on record, and that his government is already outpacing that, Burnham has claimed that the Labour Party’s plan to deal with the crisis is “working”. Crossing continued seemingly unabated on Wednesday, with observers claiming that upwards of 700 illegals attempted to reach British beaches after being launched from the French coastline in people-smuggler-operated boats, with some 500 making it to Britain sucesfully. On Thursday morning, the human traffickers who put migrants onto the water in unseaworthy boats killed again, with three people now reported to have died attempting a migrant crossing this morning near the French port of Dunkirk. Responding to the latest crossings and the statements from the new prime minister, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage remarked: “The invasion continues. Yet Burnham said yesterday, ‘The plan is working’. What planet is he on?”
