Reform UK leader Nigel Farage blasts Labour government over illegal immigration

Nigel Farage, a British politician, broadcaster, Member of Parliament for Clacton and and the Leader of Reform UK, has blasted the ruling Labour government as the annual migrant death toll reached 55 earlier on Sunday.

Farage had also slammed former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for the opposition Conservation Party’s handling of the illegal migrant crisis. “55 deaths in the Channel so far this year. Makes no difference,” he said shortly after a migrant recently died off the coast of France.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised to “smash the gangs” and end the small boat crisis ahead of the 2024 General Election. But illegal immigration via the English Channel continues to be a raging problem for the country.

Piers Morgan hits out at Labour over lack of migrant policy

The number of Channel crossings this year has already exceeded last year’s total. In 2024, the total number of asylum seekers entering the UK illegally has reached 29,451, marginally higher than the 29,437 small boat migrants caught making the perilous journey in 2023.

Responding to the alarming figure, a Home Office spokesperson said: “The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable they exploit live or die, as long as they pay,” stressing the need to dismantle the criminals’ business models and bring them to justice.

Hitting out at the Labour Party for their inefficiency, English broadcaster Piers Morgan also raged: “are Labour actually going to do anything about this? They’re scathing about Tory failure to fix it … but don’t seem to have any plan themselves.”